"One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him."

-- Jeffrey Bernard

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“Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.”
“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”
“I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.”
“Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.”
“Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.”
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”
“I loved what Brigitte Bardot represented in the 60's. Definite favourite.”

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