"If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list."

-- Robert Barry

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.”
“Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.”
“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.”
“One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.”
“We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them”
“Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.”

Source : Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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