"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world."

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Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

Adrienne Rich

#Heart Quotes #Age Quotes #World Quotes

“A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that you're struggling more than you ought to with a draft, perhaps you've run out of interesting choices, or have given yourself too few choices to begin with. Go back to the complication, fatten it up, and start over.”
“Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do.”
“I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it’s about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.”
“There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.”
“The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.”

Source : In O. C. Fisher 'Cactus Jack' (1978) ch. 11
“Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk”
“Property is a nuisance.”
“Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.”

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