"The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit."

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James Tate

#Challenges Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Ultimate Quotes

“You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.”
“I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.”
“Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,â€”though I shall not be near thee; Sing,â€”though I shall never hear thee!”

Source : Charles Wolfe (1827). “Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ...: With a Brief Memoir of His Life”, p.44
“Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.”
“The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.”
“I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.”
“You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.”
“All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close to the earth, but not close enough...I'm happy to have seen a glimpse into her life. It encourages me to live as radically as I want. Tish's film is a grand one.”

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