"The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life."

-- Mary Pratt

#Reality Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Symbols Quotes

“I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.”
“Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.”
“But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.”

Source : "I Give You Back". Poem by Joy Harjo,
“We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.”
“But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.”
“The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.”
“What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?”
“True affluence is not needing anything.”

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