"BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank."

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Source : Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Kay Ryan

#Distance Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Roving Quotes

“A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.”
“I dont think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess Im quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. Im certainly not the quiet reflective type.”
“It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.”
“I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.”
“Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.”
“The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.”

Source : Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.17, Random House
“The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.”
“There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.”

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