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Jimenez Lai

"I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the poetic license." We accept it as being an art form of sorts: the incorrect rearrangement of meaningful things. Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. We're just making sounds out of our mouths if we don't both accept that what I'm saying has very significant meanings, and I'm accurately targeting what vocabulary I use and how I arrange each word."

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Jimenez Lai

#Meaningful Quotes #Art Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.”
“In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.”

Source : Statement on the July 1943 bombings of Hamburg. "The Valour and the Horror: The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War". Book by Merrily Weisbord and ‎Merilyn Simonds Mohr, p. 107, 1991.
“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”
“I lost my dad back in the fall, and my dad said something to me a long time ago. He said, 'Are you happy with who you are now?' because we just had a real serious talk. And I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Then you can't regret what got you to where you are. So whatever you do and whatever mistakes you make, learn from them and grow. And just always treat people with kindness,' which I've tried to do.”
“The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.”
“I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!”
“The retreat and disappearance of glaciersâ€”there are only 160,000 leftâ€”means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.”
“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.”

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