"I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up."

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Source : Bob Hicok (2007). “This clumsy living”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Bob Hicok

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“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?”
“Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.”
“From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.”
“We could be happy if the air was as pure as beer.”
“But Obama is a cool cat. We've seen that before: when he suffered reverses he didn't react immediately. He took a couple of days to react.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.”
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.”

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