"Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down."

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful”
“To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.”
“One important thing I take away daily is that for all the talk about what youth are not doing - especially young people of color - I know there are many who do care about their future, who are striving to affect their world in a positive way.”
“Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.”
“As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.”

Source : "I was only being honest" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. Match 21, 2008.
“On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.”
“Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.”

Source : Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.
“There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.”

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