"If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice."

-- Charles Bukowski

“I just want to know if I'm truly not in the NFL, it's because of talent. Let it be because of my talents. But you've got to prove that I can't play this game. If you look at the film, clearly I can. So, I'll leave it at that.”

Source : "Michael Sam: ‘I’m not the only gay person in the NFL’" by Charean Williams, www.star-telegram.com. March 26, 2015.
“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”
“Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.”

Source : "Music ruined Wes Borland's Life, so he's formed a new band", www.mtv.com. November 18, 2005.
“They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.”
“When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.”
“I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.”

Source : "Face Time | Rachel Roy". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2012.
“That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2017). “Do Evil in Return”, p.73, Soho Press
“I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.”

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