"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.”
“Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.”
“Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.”
“The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.”
“I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes”
“I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.”
“I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.”
“Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.228, University of Missouri Press

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