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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. — Walt Whitman

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. — Neil Gaiman

By forty, is there anyone who hasn't had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one can hope for is an absence of too many tragedies and that the road through the inevitable grief be, if not smooth, then steady? — Robin Black

I like the imp / in impossibility — Pierre Joris

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character. — David Corbett

Still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. — Charles Dickens

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know? — David Levithan

To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds, — William James

She glided away towards the lift, which seemed hardly needed, with its earthly and mechanical paraphernalia, to bear her up to the higher levels. — Anthony Powell

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write. — Jane Hirshfield

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You can only ignore the call so many times before you know it's time to go.
Life is spreading her legs for me.
I'm going in. — Karina Halle

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today. — Madonna Ciccone

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team. — Al Yankovic