"...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch."

-- Steve Toltz

#Rainbow Quotes #Kitsch Quotes

“Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.”
“Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "”
“The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself.”
“My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.”
“The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.”

Source : Charles Perrault (2014). “Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories: Children's Classics”, p.23, Everyman's Library
“I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.”
“I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.”
“Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.”

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