"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

-- T. S. Eliot

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“If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!”
“One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't understand, because so much of it is Internet-based. Our generation specifically really relates to it, because we were the first people to discover the Internet and most of us can maybe navigate the Internet better than our parents can. All this information you could ever possibly know is right at our fingertips, not to mention the fact you can meet anyone!”
“If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.”
“Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.”
“Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.”
“Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.”
“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Online dicuss, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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