"Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game."

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Roberto Bolano

#Games Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.”
“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”
“Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.”
“Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them”
“You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you canâ€™t use that as a reason to give up or stop.”

Source : Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.121, Penguin
“Maybe it's just a humanising thing to realise that a ton of people in bands that make really exciting music, are just big nerds. And you know, maybe the Internet's done a lot in just exposing that long-held secret.”
“Change happens at the level of the individual”
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.”

Source : D. E. Tarver, Musashi Miyamoto (2004). “The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi”, p.40, iUniverse

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