"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

-- Robert Frost

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“An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.”
“Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.”

Source : "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.
“A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.”
“If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.”
“There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Algonquin Books
“The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.”
“Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.”

Source : "Electromagnetic Theory, Volume III". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Pub. Co London, p. 1; "The Electrician", 1912.
“Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing”

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