"The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure."

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Denise Duhamel

#Writing Quotes #Community Quotes #Bob Quotes

“Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.”
“There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we donâ€™t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.”
“I like to think that Einstein would look at string theoryâ€™s journey and smile, enjoying the theoryâ€™s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.”
“Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man”, p.148
“I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.”
“Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.”
“All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet.”

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