"Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness."

-- Barney Rosset

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“Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie.”
“A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.”

Source : Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press
“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”
“David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].”
“True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”
“That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.119, NYU Press
“At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.”
“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”

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