"Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?"

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Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

Karl Shapiro

#Innocence Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.67, Random House
“The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.”

Source : "Dying of hunger in a land of surplus" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2002.
“In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.”
“Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.”
“One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all the videos and I just thought it was horrible, Pickler told People. It's animal cruelty. A lot of it has to do with knowing what happens to the animals and it really bothered me and so I will not eat meat.”
“It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1926). “The Dark Dawn”, New York : Dodd, Mead
“Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.”

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