"I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time."

-- John Updike

#Years Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Four Quotes

“The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please”

Source : Amerigo Vespucci (1916). “Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere: The Year 1504”
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?”
“A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.”
“We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.”
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
“It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.”
“For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.”
“If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.”

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