"Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood."

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Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

Stella Benson

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“Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.”
“It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better”
“When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter.”
“The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.”
“One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.”
“Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.”
“It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.”

Source : Terry Kay (2010). “Shadow Song: Shadow Song”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
“We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

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