"Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs."

-- Rae Armantrout

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“To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,”

Source : Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.”
“I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.”
“You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.”
“Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.”

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.227, Macmillan
“I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8
“To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”
“I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.”

Source : Interview to US Magazine, www.gilliananderson.ws. October, 1997.

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