#vent

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

#according #anything #because #become #been

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#embassy #hour #i #members #personally

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness. ↗

— Paul Harris

#nation #proves #strength #very #weakness

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#commitment #community #convention #crime #end

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me. ↗

— Anne Heche

#been #father #had #hung #i

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#been #chance #extinct #good #had

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim. ↗

— Charlotte Curtis

#banana #his #like #peel #sounds

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗