"When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right."

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Source : Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser (2013). “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press

Ted Kooser

#Firsts Quotes #Lightning Quotes #Thunderstorm Quotes

“The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.”
“It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.”

Source : Source: en.aup.nl
“Sleep tight, ya morons!”
“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”
“[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.”
“And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”
“He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.”

Source : Song: Watching Me Watching You
“We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, itâ€™s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim weâ€™ve left behind”

Source : "Schools and the New Jim Crow". Interview with Jody Sokolower, truth-out.org. June 04, 2013.

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