"Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves."

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Source : Philip Levine (2011). “The Simple Truth: Poems”, p.62, Knopf

Philip Levine

#Simple Quotes #Naked Quotes #Elegance Quotes

“The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep”
“Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.”

Source : FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Feb 04, 2014
“All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people”
“I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in the stories we tell each other. Yet it's relevant to our lives and to our worlds, in a practical way. Congo supplies raw materials for the things that we use on a daily basis. We are intimately linked to Congo, economically. We're linked to it through human events that are occurring there, that affect all of us, and yet you don't find narratives of Congo present in our lives.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.”
“Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (2011). “Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition”, p.417, Primedia E-launch LLC
“I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.”
“Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.”

Source : "Matt Damon and John Krasinski Talk About Their Bromance, 'Promised Land,' and More". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. December 26, 2012.

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