"A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it."

-- Hilary Mantel

“Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . . . it is time to begin writing a new script that accurately reflects the beautiful, powerful, and worthy being you are.”
“As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.”
“It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.”
“Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.”
“It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.”

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“Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.”
“My idea of home is not necessarily a place.”
“Today is a good day for war to end.”

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