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Quote by Anne Sexton

“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”

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Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her confessional and autobiographical poetry. Her works delved deeply into personal pain, family relationships, and social issues, profoundly influencing 20th-century poetry. more

“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.”

Ifs Way Doe Happens Care Past Crazy Make It Happen

Author:Andy Warhol

“When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.”

“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.”

Littles Light Earth Science Stars Difficult Religious Space Views Planets Blue Boundaries Fragile Evident Our Planet Fading Chauvinism Citadels Crescent Points Of Light

Author:Carl Sagan

“You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.”

Said Would Be Beautiful Silence Monsters Exception Flaws Without You

Book:Heart of Obsidian

Source: Heart of Obsidian

“He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.”

Too Short

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

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