"I come from a pretty strange family."

-- Illeana Douglas

#Strange Quotes #Advocating Quotes

“There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.”
“I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.”

Source : Juliette Drouet (1914). “The love letters of Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo”
“I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.”
“Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.”

Source : Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219
“It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is”
“If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working, so they'll shoot us. And women who break their rules, they put acid on them. I said, if they shoot me, OK, but if they put acid on me, I will be alive as a dead body. I was always so afraid of that.”

Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.
“Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or something to do with making comedy.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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