"It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it."

-- Madame Roland

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“There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.”
“How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.”
“It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.”
“Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.44, Macmillan
“The person who lives life fully, glowing with lifeâ€™s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.”
“In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.”
“There's certain things like scripted dramas that - they're either topical or such water-cooler moments that I think that they'll be consumed within 48 hours. You don't have to consume them at 9:00 at night, but you want to consume them within the first couple of days so that you can talk to your friends about it.”
“I always make music that is true to my spirit.”

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