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Usefulness Quotes (page 214)

My father always used to say, 'College is the best thing that will ever happen to you.' And, he was right, as that was where I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking. David Sedaris
On Ira Gershwin: I remember when he was given the manuscript of a novel written by a woman friend who had hopes of having it published. To his astonishment it turned out to be the dirtiest, most pornographic book he had ever read. When the lady mentioned that she intended to use a nom de plume, Ira suggested she call herself Henrietta Miller. Oscar Levant
For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing. J. M. Coetzee
Sometimes when we were hiding behind the breakers with the crowd, he'd hold me so tight, I'd think he's not just holding me, he's holding onto me, like I'm stopping him from falling off. I'd see him looking at me and his eyes were so full of... I dunno. Like he was about to cry. And, it's stupid, I know, but I think maybe he's hurting because he loves me and I don't love him, and this great lump used to come up into my throat and I'd hold him tight and try and squeeze him as tight as I could... Melvin Burgess
T. S. Eliot quote: "I gotta use words to talk to you."
I gotta use words to talk to you. T. S. Eliot
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems Anna Garlin Spencer
Henry Rollins quote: "I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression. Hide in..."
I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression. Hide in sleep. Damage myself in dreams. Wake up older, slightly more used. Henry Rollins
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving. That's why people leave each other. They come to their senses and get selfish again. Henry Rollins
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use. E. M. Forster
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Sun Tzu
I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry? all of the past you read is usually quite great? but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side. Frank O'Hara
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not..."
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the..."
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. Martin Luther King jr.
Henry James quote: "I used to call her, in my stupidity? for want of anything..."
I used to call her, in my stupidity? for want of anything better? a dove Henry James
Wendell Berry quote: "It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to..."
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve. Wendell Berry

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