"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

-- Adrienne Rich

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“What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.”
“Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley, “His Excellency General Washington”
“Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.”
“All poetry is misrepresentation.”
“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Source : Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”
“If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.”

Source : "Evel Knievel: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2007.
“One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.”
“Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.”

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