"So you have in Iraq some people falling prey to the system, some people managing to negotiate independence, and other people becoming outlaws, and being imprisoned and dying. You have all sorts. I don't know any other society where poetry has such a place."

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Elliott Colla

#Fall Quotes #People Quotes #Independence Quotes

“Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.”
“Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.”
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
“I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful”
“Donâ€™t sit down in the middle of the woods. If youâ€™re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.”
“The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.”
“My ***** is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.”

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