"Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?"

-- Jay Asher

#Blood Quotes #Lust Quotes #Black Quotes

“If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt â€” it's corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There's a lack of human maturity. So it's not a vain or futile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it's like cutting the wheat when it's still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it's blind.”
“You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.”
“I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.”
“If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.”
“I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously”
“An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.”
“As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.”

Source : James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.”

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