"Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection."

-- Laura Furman

#Tasks Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.”
“In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.”
“We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.118, iUniverse
“Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.”
“Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...”
“One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.”

Source : "Just keep practising for real" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
“I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.”

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