"I like to try new things."

-- Rufus Wainwright

“I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.”
“It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.”
“On and on you will hike. And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.”
“The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.”
“The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.”

Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.74, Courier Corporation
“I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.”
“All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.”
“When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.”

Source : John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”

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