"I've never gotten used to winter and never will."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Winter Quotes #Used Quotes

“I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.”
“For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.”

Source : "Vermin: A Notebook" by John Kinsella, www.poetryfoundation.org. December 1, 2009.
“An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.”
“I'm not big on the Beavers right now, I know David Pollack is big on the Beavers, he's sipping that Beaver juice.”
“For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.”

Source : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
“Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.”
“I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.”

Source : "Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies" by Paul Fein, (p. 146), 2003.
“A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.”

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