"Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of."

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Source : Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”

Maxine Kumin

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“You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.”
“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
“I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.”
“If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.”
“Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.”
“One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.”
“You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.”
“I am the hero of Africa.”

Source : Attributed in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 1), 1988.

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