"I am always tying up and then deciding to depart."

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Source : Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.1, Grove Press

Frank O'Hara

“Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.”
“It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
“The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.”
“It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.”
“Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.”
“Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.”
“As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.”

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