"The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see."

-- Louise GluÌˆck

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“Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.”
“Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
“Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.”
“In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.”

Source : Ralph Washington Sockman (1933). “The Unemployed Carpenter”
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
“I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we should stop and rethink our strategy, ask ``Why are we here, what are we doing, what's succeeded, what's failed?'' And we ought to do that with the domestic Vietnam, which is the war on drugs.”
“As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.”
“Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.”

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