"As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart."

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Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.152, University of Michigan Press

Robert Hayden

#Heart Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Muzzle Quotes

“I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming to America. That is the irony of life, so I guess - I always tell people - I go I feel like in a strange way, I'm home. You know, this doesn't shock me. This is just - I've come a long way to be in a place that is extremely familiar to me.”
“This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the â€œoverâ€ and just think, then we could do, too. Only weâ€™d be smarter doers because weâ€™d be thinkers.”
“In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.”
“Eventually there are going to be cities in space.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.”
“Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.”
“About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.
“As Hoffman later lamented, â€œThe reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.”

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