"I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized."

--

Davy Crockett

“Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?”
“I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.”
“Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.”
“Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.”
“Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.”
“I'm a person who's coming New York because of the magnetism of the people. I'm not coming because of expectations. I'm coming here because it's a very natural way of sharing. That's the reason. And also friends - I love to be with people I can't meet in Warsaw.”
“Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.”

Source : Tahereh Mafi (2012). “Destroy Me”, p.9, Harper Collins
“I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.”

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