"I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well."

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Source : Source: atticusreview.org

Allison Joseph

#Reading Quotes #Giving Quotes #Tangible Quotes

“With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.”
“I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.”
“They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!”

Source : "Box Lunch". Comedy album by Lea DeLaria, May 5, 1997.
“The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.”
“I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.”
“All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings in the world. I remember reading that it was very controversial at the time - some people said even used the word "childlike drawing" - and all of a sudden I thought, "This is like Guernica in Los Angeles!" And then it all made sense to me. It was all the elements that are the Southland.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.”

Source : "Opening statements expected in trial of ex-Black Panther". www.cnn.com. February 19, 2002.

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