"Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain."

-- Jack Gilbert

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“My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.”

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“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
“In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkableâ€¦ Thatâ€™s why itâ€™s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and theyâ€™re too profound.Â Itâ€™s much easier to absorb â€“ to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically â€“ if itâ€™s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.”
“Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.”
“Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to mind the contained ferocity of a lioness. But it was the fierceness in Kate's bright blue eyes that had the most striking effect. The sort of look that made you thankful she wasn't your enemy. "It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly "Until we say so.”
“It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.”
“We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.”
“We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership”

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