"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."

-- Compay Segundo

#Strong Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Living My Life Quotes

“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.”
“Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights donâ€™t exist simply because I am outnumbered.”
“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang”
“The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.”

Source : "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.
“To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.”

Source : Mark Doty (2009). “Dog Years: A Memoir”, p.1, Harper Collins
“Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, â€œIt's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.â€ This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.”
“I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.”
“What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.”

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