"I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend."

-- Langston Hughes

“Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.”
“The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.”
“I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.”

Source : "See Jane Laugh". Interview with Allan Fallow, www.aarp.org. September 13, 2011.
“The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.”
“If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.”
“When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.”

Source : Joseph Boyden (2009). “Through Black Spruce: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin
“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.”

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