"America is not the center of the universe."

-- Felix Dennis

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“It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff.”
“I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.”
“I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.”
“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan oneâ€™s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”
“I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.”
“In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.”
“The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.”
“Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.”

Source : Giannina Braschi (1998). “Yo-yo boing!”, Latin Amer Literary Review Press

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