"Death is a name for beauty not in use."

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Source : 1953 'Composition in Late Spring', collected in The Collected Poems of Irving Layton (1971).

Irving Layton

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“The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.”
“I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.”
“Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.”
“Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?”
“Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
“The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.”
“Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!”

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