"In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels."

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Source : Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

Kate Millett

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“And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.”

Source : Lawren Harris, Gregory Betts (2007). “In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings”, p.51, Exile Editions, Ltd.
“If you have only a little ray of light, show out distinctly that you are for Him.”
“The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.”
“Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will....”
“I'll cry at the end of the day, not with fresh makeup.”
“You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.”

Source : "Rahul Dravid: a Gentleman Player". news.bbc.co.uk. March 07, 2008.
“Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.”

Source : Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.”

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