"I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?"

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Source : Cecil Castellucci (2011). “Boy Proof”, p.98, Candlewick Press

Cecil Castellucci

#Target Quotes #Want Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.”

Source : "Cancer Didn't Stop Stuart Scott From Delivering Heartfelt ESPYs Speech" by Laura Vitto, mashable.com. July 17, 2014.
“That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.”
“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.”
“Everybody has a heart. Except some people.”
“The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.”
“Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.”
“Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship...”
“Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (2001). “Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry”, p.2, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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