"To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth."

-- Herbert Spencer

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“Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.”

Source : "Hope Against Hope: A Memoir". Book by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Chapter 35), 1970.
“We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.”
“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”

Source : Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. September 6, 2006.
“I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.”
“It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.”
“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”
“I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.”
“My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.”

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