"But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain."

-- Billy Collins

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“I do a lot of research for my books. I can't possibly know all the things I write about and I love learning new things. I spend hours and hours doing research in books, libraries and online. [Once] I traveled to the reservation to get the settings and the flavor of the place down right.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings”

Source : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation
“You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.”
“No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.”
“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
“You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
“Faith is the antidote for fear.”
“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.”

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