"Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again."

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Adrienne Rich

#Fall Quotes #Recovery Quotes #Rose Quotes

“A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.”
“Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.”
“I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.”

Source : Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.225, Canongate Books
“A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.”

Source : 'Tynan Right and Left' (1967) foreword
“I definitely miss the rush from wiping out an opponent.”
“The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.”
“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.”

Source : Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.477, Hachette UK

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