"You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!"

-- Jennifer O'Neill

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Half Quotes

“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”
“I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.”
“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”

Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby
“Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia”
“My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.”
“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”
“For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.”
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”

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