"I hoard books. They are people who do not leave."

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Source : Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Anne Sexton

#Book Quotes #People Quotes

“Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.”

Source : "Harpo Speaks". Book by Harpo Marx, 1961.
“Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.”
“The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.”

Source : Edward S. Herman (1982). “The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda”, p.10, South End Press
“I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.”

Source : "If It's Solheim Cup Week, You Can Bet Beth Daniel Will Be There". Interview With Melanie Hauser, www.espn.com. September 16, 2015.
“Mr. Bennett, for just giving me this opportunity. I thank you for always being there for me when I need you. Every time I see you under the basket for a game, I feel confident. No matter how the game is going, I look at you - I say, if our owner's behind us, we can do it all. I thank you so much for giving me this opportunity.”
“People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working...”
“Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.”
“Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.”

Source : James Robertson (2010). “And the Land Lay Still”, p.23, Penguin UK

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