"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."

-- Mark Strand

#True Life Quotes #Facts Quotes

“They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.”
“The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.”
“We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.”
“When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?”
“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.”
“In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.”
“William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story â€“ comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales â€“ and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.”
“I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don't care about -- dark-and-weird-but-fun -- and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me!”

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