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“"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.”
“Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.”

Source : Richard Hugo (1992). “The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
“Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.”
“When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying... Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing... I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.”

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