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Quotes
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Authors
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Richard Siken
"You re falling now. You re swimming. This is not harmless. You are not breathing."
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Richard Siken
#Fall Quotes
#Swimming Quotes
#Breathing Quotes
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“Make something beautiful of your life.”
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“The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.”
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“Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.”
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“No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.”
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“The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.”
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“I love weekends. Just like everyone else, I get to rest on weekends and go out with friends. I hate Mondays.”
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“She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.”
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“You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.”