"Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by."

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C. K. Williams

#Poetry Quotes #Wish Quotes #Way Quotes

“Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.”
“Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.”
“Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.”
“If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.”
“For the last five years I've been in the production business.”
“I've noticed that men get unhappy about women talking about something other than men, or love, or babies.”
“This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.”

Source : George F. Will (1999). “The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
“Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment”

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