"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."

-- Haruki Murakami

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“Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.”
“When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.”

Source : "The Labour Party in Perspective" by Clement Attlee, Left Book Club, 1937.
“Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.”
“The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.”

Source : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.73, Harvard University Press
“Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 11, 2012
“Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.”
“The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude”
“When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.”

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