"There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting."

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Jenn Suhr

#Important Quotes

“So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.”

Source : William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.510, Penguin
“The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.”
“I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.”
“Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.”
“Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.”
“Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do.”
“My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.”

Source : Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.444, Cambridge University Press
“How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.”

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