"You don't always know how to do things when they're happening."

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Source : Lillian Hellman (1974). “Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts”, p.61, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Lillian Hellman

“At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.”

Source : Rajiv Joseph (2010). “Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays”, p.155, Soft Skull Press
“I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.”
“Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.”
“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.”

Source : "Tony Hawk... files like an eagle". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?”
“I feel better about blaming myself if there is some sort of mistake and that's why I'm not in a rush.”
“The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.”
“My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.”

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