"My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life."

-- Garth Greenwell

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“Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.”

Source : Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”
“If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara Gives Men Tips on Landing Latina Women" By Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2012.
“It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.”

Source : "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.
“There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 12, 2012
“It's not easy, you know, hitting balls every day, and, you know, staying really motivated throughout the whole period. It's normal you're going to have ups and downs.”

Source : Interview, 2014.usopen.org. August 29, 2014.
“My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.”
“For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.”
“And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.”

Source : "Inspiring a Mindful Nation: An Interview With Tim Ryan". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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