"Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Might Quotes

“I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.”
“I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.”
“Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.”
“ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments.”
“The contents of the glass donâ€™t matter; whatâ€™s more important is to realize thereâ€™s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.”
“Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1871). “Imogen: And Other Poems”, p.65
“I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life.”
“Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.”

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