"I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden."

-- John Milius

#Stars Quotes #War Quotes #Pretentious Quotes

“I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.”
“Oh well, I will say here, knowing each man, let you find a good wife too, and love her as hard as you can.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.168, Univ of California Press
“Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1998). “A Voice for the Child: The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak”, Thorsons Pub
“The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.”
“You ***** so-so like a seamstress.”
“I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.”
“I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.”
“In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.”

Source : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.47, Hawthorne Books

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