"Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple."

--

R. K. Milholland

“I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.”
“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.”
“I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.”
“Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.”
“That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.20, New Directions Publishing
“Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice." Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night”
“People will buy anything that is one to a customer.”
“The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.”

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