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Quote by Stanley Kunitz

“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”

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Stanley Kunitz was an American poet, born on July 29, 1905, and died on May 14, 2006. His poetry is known for its profound insights into human nature and unique style. more

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Two Courses Can Do Alive Failing Mystery Minutes Jokes Opposites Murder Suicide Commit If I Could Seconds Cheerful Murder Mysteries

Book:The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”

Should Science Political Used Stars Numbers Learning Huge Hundred Discovery Economics Billions Used To Be Economist Galaxy Deficit Huge Numbers

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do”

Ifs Men Mean Willing Bars Piano

Book:The Billy Joel Essays: Essays from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV

Source: The Billy Joel Essays: Essays from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV

“Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.”

Two Girl Brain Open Minded Closed Minded

Author:Tucker Max

“In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.”

Writing Looks Real Games Winning Cases Busy Real Life Too Busy Contention Hares Busy Life Tortoises

Author:Anita Brookner

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear”

Lost Memories Loss Praise Dear Memorable Remembrance Remembrance Day

Author:William Shakespeare

“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.”

Ends Moments Wonder Strange Kissing Essentials Affair Foolish Sand Meaningless Grain Palms Joints Texture Love Affair Trunks Grains Of Sand Vacuous Fledglings

Author:Susan Vreeland

“It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.”

States Would Be Emotion Longing Be Good Golden Perpetual Suspended Satiety

Book:The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.”

Way Long Scar Burned Long Way

Book:The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.”

Way Heart Moments Home Wish Bits Sleep Caring Shoulders Supposed To Be Tonight Cheeks Hollow Wish You Not Caring Way Home

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

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