"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win."

-- William Howard Taft

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“I'd like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.”
“you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.”

Source : A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.
“I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.”
“God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.”
“I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.”
“I couldnâ€™t be with people and I didnâ€™t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see meâ€”Iâ€™d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.”
“It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.”
“If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.”

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