"As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off."

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Source : Thom Gunn (1987). “Night Sweats”, Robert L Barth

Thom Gunn

#Hands Quotes #Avalanches Quotes #Enough Quotes

“When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.â€ (p.90)”
“I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.”
“The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.”
“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”
“Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.”
“[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.”

Source : "Lawmaker: 'Traitor' Snowden deserves death penalty" by Pete Kasperowicz, www.washingtonexaminer.com. February 11, 2016.
“I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.”

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