"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."

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Source : Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.111, Univ of California Press

Marianne Moore

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“You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-”
“I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!”
“I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Alaina Huffman Talks Smallville, Stargate Universe, and Agent Mom". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. January 27, 2011.
“I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.”
“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”
“Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think thatâ€™s hip. Sheâ€™s promoting knowing yourself, and thatâ€™s the best idol.”
“I think itâ€™s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that youâ€™re in â€¦ because when you improvise youâ€™re in right now. Youâ€™re not in yesterday or tomorrowâ€”youâ€™re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your egoâ€¦ You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.”
“Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.”

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