"I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."

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Seamus Heaney

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“As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues.Â We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.”
“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.”
“Next to that kid, we all look like onions.”
“You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.”
“I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 27, 2013
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

Source : Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.4, Vintage
“Compared to the NBA, the ABA was FABULOUS.”
“Certainly it is not a democracy.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au

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