"You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human."

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Source : Randall Jarrell (1966). “The Lost World”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

Randall Jarrell

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“I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.”
“If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.”
“When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.”
“I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.”
“Thanks, it's my own recipe. I use cheddar cheese instead of water.”
“There's always tomorrow; that's the martial way.”

Source : Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, Mickey Rourke (2012). “Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter”, p.211, Chicago Review Press
“Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.”
“Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.”

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