"We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?”
“People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.”

Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". www.chronicle.com. October 3, 2010.
“â€ŽDancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”
“There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.”
“Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!”
“I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.”
“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.”
“If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.”

Source : Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Thomas Colchie, Mark Strand (1986). “Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems”, New York : Random House

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