"Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for."

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Jean Cocteau

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“As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."”
“It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.”
“I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.”

Source : Song: Some L.A. Niggaz, Album: 2001
“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.308, David R. Godine Publisher
“Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?”
“It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.”
“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.”

Source : Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.”

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