"Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Love Quotes #Player Quotes #Emblems Quotes

“I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.”
“There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security.”

Source : "Life in the Shadows of the Empire" by Eamon Martin, www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2006.
“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.”
“I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.”
“... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.”
“Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.107, Penguin
“I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.”

Source : "What they were saying at the Oscars", www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2012.
“What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.”

Source : Interview with Pamela Kort, michaelwerner.com. April, 2003.

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