"There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love."

-- Michael Chabon

#Father Quotes #Pittsburgh Quotes #Poet Quotes

“I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.”
“What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.”
“Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.238, Columbia University Press
“Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.”

Source : "Donny Osmond reveals secrets to his happy 32-year marriage". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 11, 2010.
“A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.”
“The days that you record by yourself, you feel like a crazy person because you're saying the same line, 10 different ways, or they ask you for 10 different grunting sounds and you just feel like such a schmuck. It's crazy! When there's other people there, it tethers you to something, in a nice way.”
“At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right, and it is a very serious matter.”

Source : "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.
“There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.”

Source : David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.51, Egmont UK

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