"It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman."

-- Michael Chabon

#Years Quotes #Together Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.”
“Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record,”

Source : "Phelps Tops Another Olympian, but at 77, She Grins". www.nytimes.com. July 31, 2012.
“Only the unique is universal.”
“The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.”
“You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.”

Source : Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”
“I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.”
“You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.”

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