"The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question."

-- John Kessel

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“A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.”
“I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.”
“I'm a lightweight easy to fall easy to break With every move my whole world shakes Keep me from falling apart”
“The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.”
“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.”
“Love makes you smart and strong. Smart enough to know there is nothing else that matters. Strong enough to know that nothing else can weaken you. When you're in love, you're at peace, you're whole, and always safe. I know I made you feel at peace.”
“The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.”
“What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.64, Library of America

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