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special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen Mac Cormack, for her advice during the early stages of this project; and to David Bromige (weaver of radhats), for his enthusiasm which encouraged me to develop this piece into a book-length poem. ↗

— Darren Wershler-Henry

#cycle-of-defeat #gram-parsons #metalhead #parasite #punishment

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last. ↗

— George Murray

#been #books #change #deliberate #different

Yo, Dekko, who do I gotta blow around here to get a shower? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#berserker #dreams-of-a-dark-warrior #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole #lore

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#birth #bound #decadence #empires #fate

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#always #before #came #course #developed

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#goes #hits #i #into #mark

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#biggest #disaster #down #fix #get

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. ↗

— James Naismith

#body #clean #ideals #lofty #mind

You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking for a fix, and that's the reason why they were breaking in hospitals and drugstores. They're looking for something to take the edge off of their jones, if you will. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#breaking #city #edge #fix #hospitals