"I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen, in part, that got me into the Marine Corps, because that was a ticket to Asia. So I spent a couple of years on Okinawa and began reading and thinking about how I wanted to go about conducting my life."

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Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

Sam Hamill

#Couple Quotes #Teenage Quotes #Reading Quotes

“There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.”
“Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses.”
“Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.”
“Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.”
“Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.”

Source : Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”
“One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.”
“Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They donâ€™t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because theyâ€™re denying its existence, but because they understand that itâ€™s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light.”
“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.”

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