"Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart."

-- Fred Allen

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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”

Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
“You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.”
“It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.”
“There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ...”
“Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.”
“[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.”
“I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.”

Source : Interview to Thumbscrew Magazine, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. Spring, 1996.
“There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.”

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