"Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause."

-- Fredrik Bajer

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“See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.172, Wesleyan University Press
“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.”
“The suns going down and we cant afford to come back to it tomorrow.”
“If there's a way to serve America, I'd always consider it.”
“Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.174, U of Nebraska Press
“When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.”
“I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.”
“Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think theyâ€™re not â€” because the thing they were good at at school wasnâ€™t valued, or was actually stigmatized.”

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