"I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again."

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“You could hollow out a big pumpkin and wear it on your head for the entire week of your birthday. This will allow you to get in touch with your Halloween emotions.”
“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1861). “Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.”, p.80
“It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."”

Source : Athenaeus (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Athenaeus (Illustrated)”, p.471, Delphi Classics
“I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.”
“At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.”
“I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.”
“I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.”
“When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.”

Source : Margery Williams Bianco, Margery Williams, Thea Kliros (1989). “The Velveteen Rabbit Coloring Book”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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