"I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world."

-- Joe DiMaggio

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“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”
“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.”

Source : Source: harvardmagazine.com
“It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.”
“You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.”
“Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.”

Source : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.”

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