"We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky."

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Catherine Crook de Camp

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“The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!”
“Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.”
“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this worldâ€™s worst kind of pain.”
“Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelingsâ€”that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.”
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
“Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.”

Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan
“As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.”

Source : "PrimeTime Exclusive: Katherine Harris Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com. January 11.
“Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.”

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