"It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together."

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Source : Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.44, Laurel Leaf

Julia Alvarez

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“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.”
“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.30, Faber & Faber
“I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.”
“Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.”

Source : "Josephine Hart obituary" by Lennie Goodings, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.
“It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.”
“Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“Whatâ€™s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant itâ€™s over.”
“The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.”

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