"We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story."

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Source : Maxine Kumin (1978). “The retrieval system: poems”, Viking Pr

Maxine Kumin

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“I'll keep making videos as long as they're fun and can get better!”
“Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.”
“I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”
“I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never know sadness, but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine. Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine.”
“Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard for the government to prosecute a war and not expand...Conservatives may think they can support war and oppose the expansion of the state, but that is like trying to square the circle. What makes them think they can contain the expansion?”

Source : "Why everyone can be on the same side of war" by Sheldon Richman, www.sfgate.com. January 15, 2002.
“I've known just thousands of people a hell of a lot more talented than me who never could get anywhere.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”

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