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“Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?”
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“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
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“We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.”
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“I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.”
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“Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.”
Source : Ralph Fletcher (2010). “Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out”, p.16, Harper Collins
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“I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.”
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“We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.”
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“The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.”
Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.4, Princeton University Press
