"The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated."

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Source : Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.54, Oldcastle Books

Victor LaValle

#Defeated Quotes #Poor Quotes

“I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.”
“The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.”

Source : Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA
“Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.”
“Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.”

Source : Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.335, A&C Black
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.23, Open Road Media
“Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.”
“I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.”

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