"One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze."

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Source : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.124, Wesleyan University Press

David Ignatow

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“When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.”
“I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.”

Source : "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
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“Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.”
“The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.”
“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”
“The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture”

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