"I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#People Quotes #Alive Quotes #Want Quotes

“In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.”
“Americans have a severe disease â€” worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.”

Source : "Gorbachev: 'Americans Have a Severe Disease'". Interview with Claire Shipman, abcnews.go.com. July 12, 2006.
“As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.”
“Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.”

Source : Francis Lieber (1853). “On Civil Liberty and Self-government”, p.366
“Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.215, Broadway Books
“I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!”
“I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.”

Source : Blue Balliett (2012). “The Danger Box”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.
“I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You can marinate juniper berry or a little bit of olive oil and some citrus and fresh herbs - all of that sort of stuff.”

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