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Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies. Frank O'Hara
Steven Wright quote: "I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying."
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. Steven Wright
Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in... Bell Hooks
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or... Kurt Vonnegut
George Orwell quote: "It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were..."
It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated. George Orwell
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Sto fidgeting Bella please try to a murder here."
Sto fidgeting Bella please try to a murder here. Stephenie Meyer
It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal"Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard" I said. "Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves" he said. I smiled. "Yeah. Laurell K. Hamilton
It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable. Nicholas Sparks
Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch. George R. R. Martin
Mark Twain quote: "Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying."
Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying. Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde quote: "Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Oscar Wilde
Ayn Rand quote: "You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by..."
You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself. Ayn Rand
I know it, but I'm going to let it go, because i'm the bigger person. Not literally but metaphorically as well. Because I believe what you put into the universe comes back at you times three, which is why I always try only to put good things, not horrible skinny bitch things, into the universe. Meg Cabot
I have never tried, in even one single little instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. I was not equipped for it either by native gifts or training. And I never had any ambition in that direction, but always hunted for bigger game--the masses." - Mark Twain, a Biography Mark Twain
Jimi Hendrix quote: "I try all night to play a pretty note."
I try all night to play a pretty note. Jimi Hendrix

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