"Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy."

-- Daniel Gilbert

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
“Music is love in search of a word.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.70, University of Georgia Press
“We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.”
“Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.”
“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.”

Source : Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.227, Anchor
“I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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