"All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out."

-- Anne Sexton

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“ISIS is going to devolve from physical political emirate, into what Al Qaeda was, which is a covert organization which will go completely underground. But to communicate and to keep propagating their propaganda, after everyone is dead, all their fanboys and whatever surviving leadership that has been operating outside the war or operates in Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan, they will form what we call a "ghost caliphate."”
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”
“Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.”
“Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.”
“There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.”
“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.”
“Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.”

Source : James Dwight Dana (1849). “United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N: Geology”, p.615
“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jul 23, 2012

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