"In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead."

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Source : Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.285, Theatre Communications Group

Tony Kushner

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“It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.”
“I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.365, Del Rey
“I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The pens sharpen â€“ Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same â€“ Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.”
“Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking”
“As you release the things you no longer love or use, you call back to yourself the parts of your spirit that have been attached to them, and attached to the emotional needs and memories associated with those objects. In so doing, you bring yourself powerfully into present time. Your energy, instead of being dispersed in a thousand different, unproductive directions, becomes more centered and focused. You feel more spiritually complete and more at peace with yourself.”

Source : Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.189, Harmony
“Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.”
“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”

Source : "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

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