"I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists."

-- Dahlia Lithwick

#Dream Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Men Quotes

“Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.”
“I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.”
“I'm a lucky guy. No question.”
“Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.”
“What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.”

Source : John Gardner, Allan Richard Chavkin (1990). “Conversations with John Gardner”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.”
“And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.”
“Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.109

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