"The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring."

-- Jules Renard

#Yield Quotes #Void Quotes #Poet Quotes

“A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.”

Source : "Ray Price dead: Country music legend was 87", www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2013.
“Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse”
“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.”
“All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.”
“Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.”
“The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.16, New York Review of Books
“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.”
“We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think....”

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