"Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time."

-- Ani DiFranco

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“When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.”

Source : "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
“I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems, even single poems, which are, for me, at least the equivalent of a short story or a novel. Martin Amis, in an interview with Saul Bellow in the early eighties, quotes Bellow asking, "Why not address 'the mysterious circumstance of being', say what it's like to be alive at this time, on this planet?" This has been and still is my ambition.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm”
“The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.”
“The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.”

Source : Lecture notes 1899-1902, in R. H. Bacon Life of Lord Fisher (1929) vol. 1, ch. 7
“The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.”
“I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.”

Source : Source: alanpaul.net
“These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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