"He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet."

-- Anne Carson

#Gertrude Quotes #Poet Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.”
“"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them”
“Acting is constant exploration.”
“There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.”
“I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Stacy Keibler", www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.
“Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.509, SAGE
“I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a lot of truths. Just as a side point, for instance, we always think the bad guys in fairy tales are the stepmothers, who are witches. But where are the fathers when the witches are killing and mishandling their children? Away. They are on a business trip. They are hunting, they are away. Wow, you know! No one says the fathers are the bad guys! It's one of the things you don't say. But my goodness, where are they?”

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