"There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate."

-- Christopher Bram

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“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
“The Postman Always RingsTwice.”
“God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.”
“Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.”
“I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.196, Anchor
“At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.”
“A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.”
“Humans â€” who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals â€” have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them â€” without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”

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