"Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything"

-- Sarah Manguso

“First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.”
“It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.”
“There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.”
“I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.”
“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”
“If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (1992). “Magic City”, p.24, Wesleyan University Press
“Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.”

Source : Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor

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