"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."

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Source : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

Randall Jarrell

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“Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists”
“I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.”
“The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you are no longer human beings but only labor. It means that the land you live on is not earth but only property.”

Source : Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”
“That's all I want, to keep losing myself.”
“I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.”
“Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.”
“Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.”
“We've got some guys going good and we've got some guys who are struggling. Usually April's a tough month. Guys come from Arizona where the weather's perfect and the ball flies all over the place. Then you get into the reality of the season, and it can work against them, not so much physically as mentally.”

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