"Don't be so fast, you're all you've got."

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Source : Rita Dove (2016). “Collected Poems: 1974-2004”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company

“I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write chapters, and how you have to push everything else aside and really focus.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.”
“Some men are willing to die for their faith but will not fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. By walking in his steps and through his atonement we can gain the greatest gift of all--eternal life--which is that kind of life of the great Eternal One, our Father in heaven.”
“Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.”
“Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.”

Source : "Natascha McElhone: My grief". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.
“Men seem to think that Page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.”
“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”
“I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”

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