"I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day."

-- Chris Crutcher

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“If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.”
“We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.”
“If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.”
“In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!”
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”
“Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.”

Source : Bei Dao (1983). “Notes from the City of the Sun: Poems”
“Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down”
“But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.”

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