"I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe."

-- Langston Hughes

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“I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.”
“Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.”
“You know what I always say to people who say, "Oh, I wish I were 20 years younger"? I say, "Enjoy your age now, because in 20 years you'll be wishing you were this age." You might as well enjoy it at the present time. What I think keeps you young is always having something to look forward to and doing something new.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”
“To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”
“I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.”
“In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
“Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed”

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