"I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained."

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Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.201, Univ of California Press

Frank O'Hara

“I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.”
“I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.”
“Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.”
“I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.”
“I wanted to clear up the slum of legsâ€¦ I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.”

Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press
“I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.”
“She rose and followed her bust from the room.”
“There must be in prudence also some master virtue.”

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