"You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?"

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Source : John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin

John Yau

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“I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.”
“Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.”

Source : "An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford". Book by John W. Wallace, 1884.
“Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.”
“I dont really believe in regrets.”
“To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.”
“Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didnâ€™t.”
“I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.”
“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan

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