"There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend."

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Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Dunn

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“I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.”

Source : Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73
“Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.”
“Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.”
“... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.”
“I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?”
“Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.”

Source : "Q&A: 'Lockout' first daughter Maggie Grace on being an unlikely action star" by Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. April 12, 2012.
“I'm obsessed with books.”
“Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.”

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