"But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history."

-- Thomas Lynch

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“I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.”
“Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.”
“Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.”
“The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.”
“There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.”
“As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.”

Source : "January Magazine", January 2002.
“Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.”
“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

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