"One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach."

-- George Ade

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“Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.”
“When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.”
“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage
“Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.”
“When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.”
“My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.”

Source : Oscar Micheaux (1994). “The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press
“I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.”
“Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.”

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