"The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation."

-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

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“Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.”

Source : Peter Dobereiner (1973). “The glorious world of golf”
“You are moody. Itâ€™s always â€˜Shut up, Kenji.â€™ â€˜Go to sleep, Kenji.â€™ â€˜No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.â€™ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me nakedâ€””
“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”
“I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.”
“And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.”

Source : Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.
“Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.”
“While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.”
“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”

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