"My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen."

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Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan

Dana Gioia

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“We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.”
“Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy.”

Source : "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.
“I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.”
“So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!”
“Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.”
“I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.”
“We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.”
“We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.”

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