"American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare"

-- Muriel Rukeyser

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.”
“I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.”
“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.”
“When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.”
“Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.”
“Boys, I have been rich and I have been poor, and believe me being rich is better.”
“The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.”
“The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.”

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