"Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written."

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Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

#Cutting Quotes #Roots Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge.”
“Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.”
“Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.”
“What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ...”
“He hadnâ€™t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadnâ€™t even been the first sheâ€™d loved. Heâ€™d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. Heâ€™d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadnâ€™t drowned.”
“I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.”
“But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.”
“I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.”

Source : Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins

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