"Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question."

-- Anne Sexton

“A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.”
“Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment.”
“The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.”

Source : John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.460
“It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.”
“Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.”
“Nobody has been able to stop them [homosexuals] so far, I'm hoping Uganda can.”
“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.”
“I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!”

Source : USA Today, September 24, 2004.

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