"What people should do is explain to their friends, to their neighbors how they feel when they confront the word n - - and why they feel the way they feel."

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Randall Kennedy

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Neighbor Quotes

“Poetry is fact given over to imagery.”
“When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.”

Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.
“Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?”
“Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.”

Source : Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference,
“In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.”
“Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.”
“What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.”
“There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.”

Source : Nova Ren Suma (2011). “Imaginary Girls”, p.88, Penguin

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