"Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep, with the dog at your feet, his head resting on a shoe, and the clock's ticking like water dripping in a sink -- I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact, given the inherent cruelty of the world where beautiful things and people are blasted apart all the day long, I would never want to come back, knowing I could never be this lucky twice..."

-- Bruce Dawe

#Beautiful Quotes #Dog Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,”
“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true”
“I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.”
“I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.”
“There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.53, Broadway Books
“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”
“they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1993). “Next: new poems”, Bookslinger
“I think it is good for youngsters to see me at 45 still jogging around the track. If me being here gives them a boost then thats great.”

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