"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."

-- Charles Olson

“Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.”

Source : "'You’re Either With Us or You’re With the Status Quo': Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary" by Dan Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2009.
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
“Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.”
“Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369
“Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.”
“Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple.I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.”
“American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.”
“Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.”

Source : Simon Gray (2013). “Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car”, p.370, Faber & Faber

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