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“I want to do everything. That's my problem.”
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“Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.”
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“The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing”
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“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.”
Source : Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.8, Melville House
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“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
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“Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.”
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“Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.”
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“A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.”
Source : "Jim Clyburn: Susan Rice Attacks Are Racial Code" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012. 
