"I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it."

-- Margaret Atwood

“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”
“Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when he said, "You know, I've always wanted to be a bath attendant. You should take me instead. I'm nicer than my sister." Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better." "I'm afraid I must deny her the pleasure. I've been kissed by swords before, you see." "I may have noticed.”
“The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.”

Source : "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.
“When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."”
“To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.”
“Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.”
“I always sang, I always acted, I always played.”

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