"It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another."

-- Madeleine Albright

#Fall Quotes #America Quotes #Important Quotes

“Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing, no matter how long you live, you will not be happy.”
“religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.”
“The body can do incredible things as long as the mind supports it.”

Source : "From Skinny to Spartacus". Interview with Jill Fanslaj, www.menshealth.com. December 21, 2011.
“After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.”
“Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.”

Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin
“She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.”
“Golf is a game of precision, not strength.”

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