"O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?"

-- Ama Ata Aidoo

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“The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.”
“The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.”
“Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.”

Source : Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press
“I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.”
“A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.”
“What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.”
“For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depÃªnd of the story.”
“I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.”

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