"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.”
“Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.”
“You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.”

Source : Jodee Blanco (2010). “Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story”, p.159, Adams Media
“I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn't know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn't stop crying.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.”
“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.”
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
“Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.”

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