"It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair."

-- Amy Bloom

#Strong Quotes #Determination Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--”

Source : Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.116, Knopf
“The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.”
“I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.”
“For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.”
“John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.”
“Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but is his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny.”

Source : Walter Kaufmann (2016). “Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre”, p.63, Pickle Partners Publishing
“And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.”
“I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.”

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