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“Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

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Charles Simic, born on May 9, 1938, is a renowned American poet. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, having won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. more

“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Littles Book Speak Boys New York Findings Aim Library East Spots Reviews Vague Shelves Get Over Jackets Kansas Hurdle

Book:Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

Source: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

“Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.”

Knows Heart Excess Moderation Torn

Author:Oscar Wilde

“People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.”

People Thinking Age Faces Certain Deserve Flattering

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.”

Should Awareness Politician Capacity Wit Irony Sense Of Humor Thrones Cheerful Incongruity Awareness Of Life

Author:George Will

“Lipstick is the red badge of courage.”

Red Lipstick Badges

Author:Man Ray

“Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.”

Thinking Want Doe Self Helping Happens Action Desire Asks Goal Animal Achieve Self Esteem Raises Luck Instinct Esteem Good Luck

Author:Barbara Sher

“There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.”

Streets Football Drug Drunk Tea Meals Playing Football

Author:Noel Fielding

“I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.”

Believe Ends Moments Stories Process Our Lives

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

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