"So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer."

-- Norman Mailer

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“He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture”
“When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.”
“For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.Â As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.Â That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.Â When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.Â We call this the moment of death.Â That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.”
“Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.”
“I find it very heartening that of the women I have questioned lately about their feelings towards their mother, all the ones whose faces light up and who say, 'She's wonderful' have been daughters of women who work outside the home.”
“My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.”
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.
“One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated...”

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