"Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go."

-- James Van Allen

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“If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.”
“we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Source : Agnes Maude Royden (1924). “Sex and Common-sense”, p.3, Reprofis LLC
“I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.”
“I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.”
“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.”
“Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.”
“Normally I do all my own post work. It's not that I do it better than anyone else, I just do it my way. I make decisions. People who print at labs are probably far better printers, but they won't make my decisions mid-process. I don't want to be out of the loop. I want to be a photographer and do all of it.”

Source : Source: aphotoeditor.com
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story”

Source : Mary Zimmerman, Robert Fitzgerald (2006). “The Odyssey: A Play”

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