"And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave."

-- Amiri Baraka

#Stars Quotes #Night Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Design is art that people use,”
“Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.”

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“When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.”
“There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.”
“Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.”
“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”
“Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.”
“Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.”

Source : Luis Fernando Verissimo (2012). “Borges And The Eternal Orang-Utans”, p.65, Random House

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