"Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper."

-- Junot Diaz

#Growing Up Quotes #Nerd Quotes #Paper Quotes

“Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.”

Source : "I like darkness" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2006.
“Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.”
“Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'”
“Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.”
“The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-Ã -vis everyone else. "Us against the rest of the world" is the formula that drives the West.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Just because you're home, you don't have to answer the phone.”
“Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.”

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