"Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense."

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Source : Terrance Hayes (2006). “Wind in a Box”, p.32, Penguin

Terrance Hayes

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“Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.”
“I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.”
“Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”
“I consider taking a road trip with my husband to be the epitome of happiness. It's been so hectic lately that it's been hard to plan one, but we always drive to North Carolina, where he's from, for Christmas. We'll be doing that again soon.”
“The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.”

Source : "Spotify founder: Future of music is access, not ownership" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2011.
“It just wasn't our time.”
“The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?”
“I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.”

Source : "Factbox: Quotes from '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney". Compiled by Bill Trott, www.reuters.com. November 05, 2011.

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