"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."

-- J. D. Salinger

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“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.”
“I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.”
“My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.”
“The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.”
“If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.”
“It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people...”
“I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.”
“Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.”

Source : "Demi Monde" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2007.

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