"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains."

-- Francis Quarles

“The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.”
“When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.”
“Isnâ€™t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?”
“I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.”
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.202, Univ of California Press
“To be a man you've gotta beat the man.”
“Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.”

Source : A Very Honorable Guy" (1929)
“I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'”

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