"Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept."

-- Howard Nemerov

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“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.”
“I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.”

Source : "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.
“A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.”

Source : Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.23, Pan Macmillan
“If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.”

Source : Shengyan, Sheng-Yen (2005). “Getting the Buddha Mind: On the Practice of Chan Retreat”, p.100, North Atlantic Books
“I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.”
“Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?”

Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.
“Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.”

Source : "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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