"I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that."

-- Julia Sweeney

#Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Scary Quotes

“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”

Source : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
“When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.”
“All poetry is political, to some degree.”

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“Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.”
“New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.”

Source : Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.”
“I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.”
“Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt so lucky to have access to the feminism that came before me. To have younger people take what me and my friends have done, and to say 'We have access to that, but we're going to put that through our own Internet generation filter and we're going to make it into something that speaks to us and is a lot smarter.'”

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