"Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldnâ€™t. Blow something up. But well."

-- Shalom Auslander

#Writing Quotes #Blow Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.”
“The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.”
“Weâ€™ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.”
“I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didnâ€™t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.”
“Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.”
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art â€˜goodâ€™ for you is not something that is already â€˜insideâ€™ it, but something that happens inside you...”
“In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.”

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