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Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин) (6 June (26 May, O.S.) 1799 – 10 February (29 January, O.S.) 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

Quotes

 * The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
 * The Hero ll. 64-65, quoted in Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

 * God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
 * Found in Pushkin's. The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories. English edition by Random House LLC. 2013. p. 139
 * As quoted by Joseph Frank in Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (2009). Princeton University Press, p. 203.

 * На берегу пустынных волн Стоял он, дум великих полн,
 * Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
 * Opening lines of The Bronze Horseman (1833) trans. Charles Johnston.

 * And thus He mused: "From here, indeed Shall we strike terror in the Swede? And here a city by our labor Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor; "Here cut" - so Nature gives command - Your window through on Europe; stand Firm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
 * The Bronze Horseman (1833).

 * ‘Tis time, my friend, ‘tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
 * 'Tis Time, My Friend, l. 1-5 (1834).

 * The heavy hanging chains shall fall, The walls shall crumble at the word, And Freedom greet you with the light And brothers give you back the sword.
 * The Decembrists

 * When the loud day for men who sow and reap Grows still, and on the silence of the town The insubstantial veils of night and sleep, The meed of the day's labour, settle down, Then for me in the stillness of the night The wasting, watchful hours drag on their course, And in the idle darkness comes the bite Of all the burning serpents of remorse; Dreams seethe; and fretful infelicities Are swarming in my over-burdened soul, And Memory before my wakeful eyes With noiseless hand unwinds her lengthy scroll. Then, as with loathing I peruse the years, I tremble, and I curse my natal day, Wail bitterly, and bitterly shed tears, But cannot wash the woeful script away.
 * Remembrance.

 * God grant you, friends, a helping hand— In cares of state and private plights, In rowdy feasts of friendship's band, In passion's sweet and secret rites! God grant you, friends, a helping hand— In daily woes and days of strife, On vacant sa, in distant land, In every black abyss of life!
 * Pushkin, 19 October 1827. as quoted in Pushkin, Alexander (2009). Selected Lyric Poetry. Northwestern University Press, p. 121.

 * What grace could all your worldly power bring To One whose crown of thorns has made him King, The Christ who gave His body to the flails, Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails? Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.
 * Secular Power as quoted in Pushkin, Alexander (2009). Selected Lyric Poetry. Northwestern University Press, p. 121.

 * Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days, Of vain and empty words, of idle ways, Of base ambition and the urge to rule; That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool; and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone. That I not call my brother to atone; Make chaste my heart and lend me from above Thy fortitude, humility, and love.
 * A Prayer as quoted in Pushkin, Alexander (2009). Selected Lyric Poetry. Northwestern University Press, p. 199.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

 * Но так и быть — рукой пристрастной Прими собранье пестрых глав, Полусмешных, полупечальных, Простонародных, идеальных, Небрежный плод моих забав, Бессониц, легких вдохновений, Незрелых и увядших лет, Ума холодных наблюдений И сердца горестных замет.
 * But, as it is, this pied collection begs your indulgence — it's been spun from threads both sad and humoristic, themes popular or idealistic, products of carefree hours, of fun, of sleeplessness, faint inspirations, of powers unripe, or on the wane, of reason's icy intimations, and records of a heart in pain.
 * Dedication.

 * There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended— Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord Put me to witness much for many years And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.
 * Prologue, sec. 5, l. 18-28.

 * Unforced, as conversation passed, he had the talent of saluting felicitously every theme, of listening like a judge-supreme while serious topics were disputing, or, with an epigram-surprise, of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.
 * Ch. 1, st. 5.

 * Всегда довольный сам собой, Своим обедом и женой.
 * Always contented with his life, and with his dinner, and his wife.
 * Ch. 1, st. 12.

 * A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.
 * Ch. 1, st. 25.

 * Недуг, которого причину Давно бы отыскать пора, Подобный английскому сплину, Короче: русская хандра
 * The illness with which he'd been smitten should have been analysed when caught, something like spleen, that scourge of Britain, or Russia's chondria, for short.
 * Ch. 1, st. 38.

 * Прошла любовь, явилась Муза, И прояснился темный ум. Свободен, вновь ищу союза Волшебных звуков, чувств и дум;
 * Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
 * Ch. 1, st. 59.

 * Привычка свыше нам дана: Замена счастию она.
 * Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
 * Ch. 2, st. 31.

 * Send me, Almighty, I petition, In porticoes or at a ball No bonneted academician, No seminarist in a yellow shawl! No more than in red lips unsmiling Can I find anything beguiling In grammar-perfect Russian speech. What purist magazines beseech, A novel breed of belles may heed it, And bend us (for my life of sin) To strict grammatic discipline, Prescribing meter, too, where needed; But I - what is all this to me? I like things as they used to be
 * Ch. 3, st. 28. (Translated by Walter Arndt in Eugene Onegin (2009). Penguin.

 * The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.
 * Ch. 4, st. 1.

 * The clock of doom had struck as fated; the poet, without a sound, let fall his pistol on the ground.
 * Ch. 6, st. 30.

 * Москва… как много в этом звуке Для сердца русского слилось! Как много в нем отозвалось!
 * Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!
 * Ch. 7, st. 36.

 * Что наши лучшие желанья, Что наши свежие мечтанья Истлели быстрой чередой, Как листья осенью гнилой.
 * Sad that our finest aspiration Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
 * Ch. 8, st. 11.

Boris Godunov (1825)

 * Pimen [writing in front of a sacred lamp]: One more, the final record, and my annals Are ended, and fulfilled the duty laid By God on me a sinner. Not in vain Hath God appointed me for many years A witness, teaching me the art of letters; A day will come when some laborious monk Will bring to light my zealous, nameless toil, Kindle, as I, his lamp, and from the parchment Shaking the dust of ages will transcribe My true narrations.
 * (Variant translation): One more story, just one more, And then my history's completed, All my chronicles written down And my sinner's debt repaid to God. Not for nothing. The Lord appointed me to bear witness For many many years and it was he Taught me the art of creating books. One day, in the far future, some hard-working monk Will find my painstaking, anonymous writings. He'll light his lamp, as I light mine, He'lll shake the dust of centuries from these scrolls. Then he'll copy out, carefully, these true accounts, So the descendants of today's Christians May know the past of their native land Remember their mighty Tsars warmly For their glory and their knidness And our Lord's mercy on their sins and crimes. In my old age I live my life anew.
 * Pushkin, Alexander (2012). Pushkin's Boris Gudunov. Oberon Books.

 * Like some magistrate grown gray in office, Calmly he contemplates alike the just And unjust, with indifference he notes Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.

 * Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!

 * Mosalsky: Good folk! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor have poisoned themselves. We have seen their dead bodies. [The People are silent with horror.] Why are ye silent? Cry, Long live the Tsar Dimitry Ivanovich! [The People are speechless.]

"" (1831)
English translation from Blackwood's Magazine (Volume 74, 1853)

 * Why rave ye, babblers, so -- ye lords of popular wonder?
 * Why such anathemas 'gainst Russia do ye thunder?
 * What moves your idle rage? Is't Poland's fallen pride?
 * 'Tis but Slavonic kin among themselves contending,
 * An ancient household strife, oft judged but still unending...

 * And shall Slavonic streams meet in a Russian ocean --
 * Or that dry up? This is the point for us.

 * .. you mark the fate
 * And daring of the battle-hour__
 * And understand us not but hate ...

 * What stirs ye? Is it that this nation
 * On Moscow's flaming wall, blood-slaked and ruin-quench'd
 * Spurn'd back the insolent dictation
 * Of Him before whose nod ye blench'd?

The Queen of Spades (1833)

 * "The bread of the stranger is bitter," says Dante, "and his staircase hard to climb." But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?
 * II.

 * "I have come to you against my wish," she said in a firm voice: "but I have been ordered to grant your request. Three, seven, ace, will win for you if played in succession, but only on these conditions: that you do not play more than one card in twenty-four hours, and that you never play again during the rest of your life. I forgive you my death, on condition that you marry my companion, Lizaveta Ivanovna."
 * V.

 * Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
 * VI.

 * "Ace has won!" cried Hermann, showing his card. "Your queen has lost," said Chekalinsky, politely. Hermann started; instead of an ace, there lay before him the queen of spades! He could not believe his eyes, nor could he understand how he had made such a mistake. At that moment it seemed to him that the queen of spades smiled ironically and winked her eye at him. He was struck by her remarkable resemblance... "The old Countess!" he exclaimed, seized with terror.
 * VI.

 * Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room Number 17 of the Obukhov Hospital. He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: "Three, seven, ace!" "Three, seven, queen!"
 * VI.

The Prophet (1826)

 * Prorok

 * Tormented by spiritual thirst, I dragged myself through a somber desert. And a six-winged seraph Appeared to meet me at the crossing of the ways. He touched my eyes With fingers as light as a dream: And my prophetic eyes opened Like those of a frightened eagle. He touched my ears And they were filled with noise and ringing: And I heard the shuddering of the heavens, And the flight of the angels in the heights, And the movement of the beasts of the sea under the waters, And the sound of the vine growing in the valley. He bent down to my mouth And tore out my tongue, Sinful, decitful, and given to idle talk; with the right hand steeped in blood He inserted the tongue of a wise serpent, Into my benumbed mouth. He clove my breast with a sword, And plucked out my quivering heart, And thrust a coal of live fire Into my gaping breast. Like a corpse I lay in the desert. And the voice of God called out to me: 'Arise, O prophet, see and hear, Be filled with my will, Go forth over land and sea, And set the hearts of men on fire with your Word.'
 * English translation found in New Society, Volume 8, (1966). New Society Limited. p. 413. Also quoted by Kahn, Andrew (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin. Cambridge University Press, p. 84.

Quotes about Pushkin

 * Homeland, tenderer than first caresses,/you have taught me to protect and guard/golden language in all Pushkin's treasures,/Gogol's magic, captivating word.
 * Margarita Aliger poem translated into English, anthologized in An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature edited by Maxim D. Shrayer (2007)

 * Солнце нашей поэзии закатилось! Пушкин скончался, скончался во цвете лет, в средине своего великого поприща!.. Более говорить о сем не имеем силы, да и не нужно; всякое русское сердце знает всю цену этой невозвратимой потери, и всякое русское сердце будет растерзано.
 * А.А. Краевский, Литературные прибавления к «Русскому инвалиду» № 5, 30 января 1837
 * Translation: The sun of our poetry is down! Pushkin passed away, passed in the flower of his age, in the middle of his great endeavor!... To speak more of it we do not have the power, and there is no need to do so; every Russian heart knows the whole price of this irrecoverable loss, and every Russian heart will be torn apart.
 * A. A. Kraevsky, the note of Pushkin's death (January 30, 1837).

 * А Пушкин — наше всё: Пушкин — представитель всего нашего душевного, особенного, такого, что остается нашим душевным, особенным после всех столкновений с чужим, с другими мирами. Пушкин — пока единственный полный очерк нашей народной личности, самородок, принимавший в себя, при всевозможных столкновениях с другими особенностями и организмами, все то, что принять следует, отбрасывавший все, что отбросить следует ... сочувствия старой русской жизни и стремления новой, — все вошло в его полную натуру в той стройной мере, в какой бытие послепотопное является сравнительно с бытием допотопным, в той мере, которая определяется русскою душою.
 * Аполлон Григорьев. Литературная критика. — М.: Художественная литература, 1967. С. 166, «Пушкин — Грибоедов — Гоголь — Лермонтов», 1859
 * Translation: And Pushkin is our everything: Pushkin is the presenter of all of our psyche, especially that part that remains our psyche, our distinction, after all our encounters with the alien, other worlds. Pushkin is, to date, the only complete outline of our nation's personality, the gem, that assimilated, in a variety of encounters with other idiosyncrasies and organisms, everything worthy of assimilation, discarding everything unworthy [...] Sympathies for the old Russian life and urges towards the new, - they all accomplished his character in that orderly measure in which the postdiluvian compares with the antediluvian, in that measure that is defined by Russian psyche.
 * Apollon Grigoryev, Pushkin-Griboedov-Gogol-Lermontov (1859)
 * Несмотря на всю свою славу, Пушкин при жизни не был достаточно глубоко оценен даже наиболее проницательными из своих современников. ... В той или иной степени это непонимание продолжалось около полустолетия. ... Лишь после знаменитой речи Достоевского Пушкин открылся не только как «солнце нашей поэзии», но и как пророческое явление. ... Нисколько не удивительно, что, прослушав ее, люди обнимались и плакали: в ту минуту им дано было новое, необычайно возвышенное и гордое понятие не только о Пушкине, но и обо всей России, и о них самих в том числе.
 * Владислав Ходасевич, «О пушкинизме» // Возрождение. — Париж, 27 декабря 1932. — № 2767.
 * Translation: In spite of all his fame, Pushkin, during his lifetime, was not appreciated deeply enough, even by the most insightful of his contemporaries. [...] With varying degrees, this misunderstanding lasted for almost half a century. [...] Only after Dostoevsky's famous speech [June 8, 1880] Pushkin appeared not only as "the Sun of our poetry" but as the prophetic phenomenon. [...] It is not in the least surprising that on hearing [this speech], people would embrace each other and weep: that minute, they were given a new, unusually sublime and proud concept not only about Pushkin, but about the whole of Russia, themselves included.
 * Vladislav Khodasevich, O pushkinisme (About Pushkinism, 1932)

 * I brought with me to Siberia books by Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov. Ilyich arranged them near his bed, alongside Hegel, and read them over and over again in the evenings. Pushkin was his favourite.
 * Nadezhda Krupskaya "Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives" (1956)

 * One often hears: that is good but it belongs to yesterday. But I say: yesterday has not yet been born. It has not yet really existed. I want Ovid, Pushkin, and Catullus to live once more, and I am not satisfied with the historical Ovid, Pushkin, and Catullus.
 * Osip Mandelstam THE WORD AND CULTURE translated into English in The complete critical prose (1997)

 * In the tiny gardens-sunflowers, rezedas, poppies,/blonde braids, beribboned cockades, Pushkin and Nadson.
 * Anna Margolin, The poem "Brisk" in Drunk from the Bitter Truth, translated from Yiddish

 * Pushkin grew with the years. Every other writer claimed descent from him. Inexplicably, the whole of Russian literature proceeded from his genius. Poetry, novels, short stories, history, theater, criticism—he had opened up the whole gamut of literary endeavor to his countrymen. He was first in time, and first in quality. He was the source. Neither Gogol nor Tolstoy could have existed without him, for he made the Russian language; he prepared the ground for the growth of every genre.
 * Henri Troyat, Pushkin: A Biography (1946), as quoted in Daniel S. Burt's The Literature 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time (2008), p. 67

 * В поэзии Пушкина метонимия и перифраза являются основным элементом стиля... В этом отношении Пушкин продолжает традицию поэтов XVIII в. ... Тема о Пушкине как завершителе русского классицизма давно уже стоит на очереди, но требуются многочисленные предварительные работы по русскому языку XVIII в., которые до сих пор не сделаны. С другой стороны, возникает вопрос о «наследии Пушкина» в XIX в. Поэты XIX в. не были учениками Пушкина; после его смерти возобладала романтическая традиция, восходящая к Жуковскому и воспитанная под немецким влиянием.
 * В. М. Жирмунский, "Задачи поэтики" (1919-1923)
 * Translation: In Pushkin's poetry, metonymy and periphrasis are the main elements of style[...] In this respect, Pushkin takes after the tradition of the 18th century poets[...] The topic of Pushkin as the concluder of the Russian Classicism has long been awaited for, but it calls for multiple preliminary works on the Russian language of the 18th century, and those have yet to appear. On the other hand, the question emerges of 'Pushkin's heritage' in 19th century. The poets of the 19th century were not Pushkin's disciples; after his death, the Romantic tradition prevailed, descending from Zhukovsky and nurtured under the German influence.
 * V. M. Zhirmunsky, Zadachi poetiki (Problems of Poetics, 1919-1923)

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13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30 is a 2004 film in which a 13-year-old girl's birthday wish transforms her into her 30-year-old future self, and she learns that her dreams of popularity and high fashion may not lead where she expects.
 * Directed by Gary Winick. Written by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa.

For some, 13 feels like it was just yesterday. For Jenna, it was. (Taglines)

Lucy Wyman

 * [after Jenna says she's 13] Jenna, if you're gonna start lying about your age, I'd go with 27.
 * [to Jenna] Okay, you can wipe the doe-eyed, Bambi-watching-her-mother-get-shot-and-strapped-to-the-back-of-the-van look from your face.

Matt Flamhaff

 * [to Jenna] You don't always get the dream house, but you get awfully close, you know?
 * It doesn't matter what Lucy said. I stopped trusting her after she stole my Pop Rocks in the third grade.

Jenna Rink

 * I wanna be thirty. Thirty and flirty and thriving.
 * [hearing her cell phone ring] Can you hear that, sir? Can you hear the music?
 * [dragging Matt to the dance floor] Oh for the love of Pete! You taught it to me!
 * [at a huge party] I'll have a Pina Colada, not virgin. Do you wanna see my ID? Totally have it!
 * [to Trish Sackett] You know what? You are rude and mean and sloppy and frizzy! I don't like you at all!
 * What is that attitude? We are young. Heartache to heartache, we stand. Love is a battlefield.

Dialogue

 * Young Matt: Hey, Jenna. [takes a picture of him and Jenna]
 * Young Jenna Rink: Matt, please. No more pictures.
 * Young Matt: Come on, it's your 13th birthday. We gotta document it.

 * [Jenna has invited the most popular girls in school to her 13th birthday party.]
 * Young Matt: You know, I can't believe you invited those clones.
 * Young Jenna Rink: They're my friends.
 * Young Matt: The Six Chicks are not your friends, okay?
 * Young Jenna Rink: Well, almost. And someday, I'm gonna BE a Sixth Chick.
 * Young Matt: There are six of them, Jenna, that's the whole point. There can't be a seventh Sixth Chick. It's just mathematically impossible. Besides you're way cooler than they are, they're totally unoriginal.
 * Young Jenna Rink: I don't want to be original, Matty, I want to be cool.

 * [repeated lines]
 * Matt: Arrivederci.
 * Jenna: Au revoir.

 * Beverly Rink: Just because you don't look like those girls in Poise magazine doesn't mean you're not beautiful in your own way.
 * Young Jenna Rink: I don't wanna be beautiful in my own way. I wanna look like these people!
 * Beverly Rink: Oh, those aren't people, honey. Those are models.
 * Young Jenna Rink: Look at this. [reads from magazine] "Thirty and flirty and thriving. Why the thirties are the best years of your life." I wanna be thirty.
 * Beverly Rink: [chuckles] Well, you will be, honey. But right now, you're my beautiful 13-year-old.

 * Lucy: Can you get in the car?
 * Jenna: I can't get in the car, I don't get in the car with strangers.
 * Lucy: Please get in the car, we're gonna be late.
 * Jenna: I can't get in the car, I don't know you.
 * Lucy: Just get in the car.
 * Jenna: I don't get in the car with strangers!
 * Lucy: You're being a little paranoid.

 * Lucy: Honey, I know I'm your best friend, but the slip-dress is a little '97... unless it's retro.
 * Jenna: [surprised] Are you really my best friend?
 * Lucy: [wondering why Jenna is acting so strange] You're pregnant.
 * Jenna: [horrified] Oh, no! Oh, my God, no!
 * Lucy: [relieved] Thank God. You scare me. What did you do last night?
 * Jenna: [nervous] See, that's just it. Something really strange is happening. I slept in an apartment I've never seen before... and there was a naked man in my shower and I saw his thingy.
 * Lucy: [sarcastically] Oh, God. Not his thingy. [to driver] Driver, could you please pull over, since we're here?

 * Lucy: [regarding security breaches at the company] Richard, we are hiring new printers, we're installing passwords. We're building firewalls on all the computers. Jenna fired Charlotte yesterday.
 * Richard: [to Jenna] Did you? Good, I guarantee she has friends at Sparkle. She was always taking notes.
 * Lucy: She was a secretary.
 * Richard: Yeah, whatever.

 * Jenna: [on the sidewalk, ringing the buzzer for an upstairs apartment] Hello? Yeah. Hi, this is Jenna and I'm looking for Matt. I don't know if you're him, but if you lived on Spruce Street and if your favorite shirt is a gray velour one, I need to speak to you.
 * Matt: [talking over speaker-system, poor reception] Hello? Hello? You know what? I got none of that. But if you're here from Ming Gardens food delivery, ring twice. If not, I really don't want it.
 * [Jenna walks upstairs and knocks on the door to apt. 2-B; Matt opens the door and sees Jenna.]
 * Matt: You're not Chinese.

 * Matt: Jenna, what are you... Why are you here?
 * Jenna: Matty, I told you - something really weird is happening. Yesterday was my 13th birthday, and then today I woke up and I'm this, and you, I mean - you're that! You get it?
 * Matt: [long pause] Are you high? You been smoking pot? Doing X? Fallen into a K-Hole? You doing drugs?

 * Jenna: [panicked] I want a fluffy pillow!
 * Matt: A fluffy pillow, coming right up.

 * Becky: Why are you talking to me?
 * Jenna: Why not? We are neighbors, right?
 * Becky: But you usually ignore me.
 * Jenna: I like your shoes.
 * Becky: Thanks. I like your dress.
 * Jenna: That's because I have these incredible boobs to fill it out!

 * Becky: I like your bag.
 * Jenna: Thanks, but you should come by sometime. I got like a zillion of them.
 * Becky: [suddenly surprised] Really?
 * Jenna: Yeah, it would be totally cool. Becky, can I ask you something?
 * Becky: Yeah, sure.
 * Jenna: Can you tell I'm wearing underwear? 'Cause I totally am.
 * Becky: I think that kinda the point!

 * Lucy: [at a huge party] Speaking of disasters, what is she doing here?
 * Jenna: Who?
 * Lucy: Sparkle's editor-in-chief, Trish Sackett. Twelve o'clock and headed our way.
 * Trish: [smugly] Hi, girls. Our J. Lo issue is selling like hotcakes. How's yours doing?
 * Lucy: [sarcastically] My God, Trish, are things so bad you had to come to our party to eat free food? Please, put some crab in your purse for later.
 * Trish: You might want to keep some of that biting wit for your magazine. Or you could change the name to something more appropriate...like Poison or Pitiful. Whatever's more pathetic.
 * Jenna: You know what? You are rude and mean and sloppy and frizzy. I don't like you at all.
 * Trish: Well, fortunately, I don't care about being liked. I care about winning.

 * Arlene: I have your urgent messages.
 * Jenna: Let's hear them.
 * Arlene: Well, okay. Emily Pratt called and wanted me to tell you, "I can't believe you scooped my story on Vivienne Tam, you backbiting bitch. That was a new level of sleaze, even for you. I hope you die in one of her casual pantsuits."
 * Jenna: Oh, my God, that was so mean.
 * Arlene: Miss Lewis called. She said, "I hope you choke on your own bile, you pretentious, conniving snake."
 * Jenna: Maybe I should read them myself.

 * Jenna: What happened?
 * Matt: I don't know. I can pretty much peg it to your 13th birthday, when you were in the closet playing that game. Spin the Rapist?
 * Jenna: [suddenly remembers] Seven Minutes in Heaven. Everybody ditched. And that is the last thing I remembered.

 * Beverly Rink: Well, Jenna, I know I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret making any of them.
 * Jenna: How come?
 * Beverly Rink: Because if I hadn't have made them, I wouldn't have learned how to make things right.

 * Jenny: I don't know what Lucy said to you about me. But I want you to know that whoever she was talking about wasn't me.
 * Matt: It doesn't matter what Lucy said. I stopped trusting her after she stole my Pop Rocks in the third grade.

 * Jenna: I love you, Matt. You're my best friend.
 * Matt: Jenna... I've always loved you.

 * [Jenna returns to 1987, and has a second chance as "Crazy for You" by Madonna plays in the background.]
 * Young Lucy: [to Matt; snobbishly] Jenna's waiting for you in the closet.
 * [Young Lucy goes upstairs; Young Matt goes to closet, and opens door.]
 * Young Jenna: [happily] Matty! [pounces on Young Matt and passionately kisses him]
 * Young Matt: [impressed] Wow. You really know what you're doing.
 * Young Jenna: Come on.
 * Young Lucy: [takes scarf; snobbishly] Sorry, I forgot my scarf.
 * Young Jenna: [angrily snatches Lucy's homework, and rips it up] You know what? You can be the pot and kettle all by yourself from now on, [splashes Young Lucy's drink on her dress] biatch. [to Matt] Come on, Matt.
 * Young Lucy: [to Young Jenna; incensed and confused] What did you call me?!
 * Young Jenna: We're gonna be late.
 * Young Matt: For what?
 * Young Jenna: You'll see.

 * [last lines]
 * Jenna: A Razzle, Mr. Flamhaff?
 * Matt: Thank you, Mrs. Flamhaff.

Taglines

 * Jenna Rink made a wish and went from 13 to 30 overnight. Now everyone needs her. Everyone knows her. But no one knows the truth about her.
 * Jenna Rink made a wish and got the life she always dreamed of. But having it all is not nearly enough. Now she will do whatever it takes to find her way home.
 * When Jenna Rink woke up this morning, she wasn't quite herself. Now she can't explain it. But she's loving every minute of it.
 * On her thirteenth birthday, Jenna Rink's wish came true. Now she can't explain it. But she's loving every minute of it.
 * Jenna Rink had one wish. Now she's living the life she always dreamed of.
 * For most people, being a kid feels like it was just yesterday. For Jenna, it was!
 * For some, 13 feels like it was just yesterday. For Jenna, it was.
 * A comedy for the kid in all of us.

Cast

 * Jennifer Garner - Jenna Rink
 * Mark Ruffalo - Matt Flamhaff
 * Judy Greer - Lucy Wyman
 * Andy Serkis - Richard Kneeland
 * Lynn Collins - Wendy Collins
 * Samuel Ball - Alex Carlson
 * Renee Olstead - Becky Olstead
 * Christa B. Allen - Young Jenna
 * Sean Marquette - Young Matt
 * Alexandra Kyle - Tom-Tom (Young Lucy)

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Upright Citizens Brigade (TV series)

Upright Citizens Brigade is an American sketch comedy television series that premiered on August 19, 1998 on Comedy Central.

 * Realtor: This is the Hot Chicks Room. The breakfast table's just over this way...
 * Wife: Excuse me? What was that room again?
 * Realtor: Oh, this is the Hot Chicks Room. It's filled with assorted hot chicks, who party in here 24 hours a day. But you'd be more interested in the kitchen...
 * Wife: You know what? We're not going to need a sexy chicks room.
 * Realtor: Well, actually it's a Hot Chicks Room.
 * Wife: Well, whatever it is, we don't need it.
 * Husband: You said the same thing about the microwave, and we use that darned thing all the time.
 * Husband: So, a Hot Chicks Room, huh?
 * Realtor: Yes. The previous owner installed the room in the 80's, and I'll be honest with you, some of the chicks aren't all that hot anymore. However, they are replaceable.
 * (lull)
 * Realtor: So, you have children? Wonderful.  My parents had children as well.

 * "Man, I'm just so tired of all these Star Wars..."
 * "The Power of Spitty Slurpy is all around us!"
 * "We'd rather have a gun in the outfield, than under a mattress where a child could get to it."
 * -Joe Auxillary, UCB Director of Health Services

 * “This is a urinal cake, not a real cake.”

 * “I made this bong out of a dildo I found. Its name is bonga-longa-dingdong”

 * "Well, Sgt. This whole operation is FUBAR!"

 * I paid the psychotonimists over $4,000 because they promised me they could cure me of being white. And after they brainwashed me into believing I was an African-American I moved to the ghetto and upon greeting my first African-American brother he beat me mercilessly. And all I said was, "Hey, my nigger."

 * "They didn't even get the lyrics to 'Screwing Cats Doggie Style'!"

 * "Humans rule, dolphins can suck it!"

 * "Captain Lunatic: I didn't fight a secret war in Nicaragua so you could walk the streets of freedom, badmouthing Lady America in your damn mirrored sunglasses!"

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Talk:Doctor Who

I've added a terse introduction to the section on the Doctor himself based on text originally from a Wikiquote article "The Doctor (Doctor Who)" created by 82.36.121.94 on 24 May 2005. — Jeff Q (talk) 15:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sound clips
I've just removed some external links to MP3 sound clips added by Jawr256. The problems are two-fold: This is one of many cases of logically "pushing the envelope" of Wikiquote practices. I'm being the old, protective stick-in-the-mud, but I invite folks who would like to see (or rather hear) sound clips for quotes to bring this up on the village pump. (I think the Daleks' "EX-TER-MI-NATE!" is an excellent test case of the utility of sound clips.) We've got plenty of other growth pains we're dealing with right now; what's one more? But I caution that this issue may take quite a while to address, given the legal issue. — Jeff Q (talk) 07:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) We're a text-based quote project, and have no policy that I'm aware of on including multimedia. (We don't even promote images for articles, although some do have them.)
 * 2) MediaWiki projects (especially Wikipedia) and the projects' developers are extremely hostile to MP3s because of their proprietary license requirements, which are felt to be incompatible with the GFDL under which MW projects (including Wikiquote) operate.

Unquiet Dead Quote
I've got most of this convasation between Chris and Simon - if someone could just patch it up, as it's one of the classic moments of the new series.

source of Doctor quotes
If I didn't know better, i'd swear someone just copied the Dialogue Triumphs sections from the "Discontinuity Guide"

100,000 BC Quotes
I saw some time ago the title for the first Doctor Who story bieng 100,000 BC, now it's An Unearthly Child - I like the second one best. But the Wikiquote is still 100,000 BC!

Redirection
When people search 'Dalek' they get 'The Doctor' on Wikiquote.

Eighth Doctor quote - genuine?
I'm not sure the "Guardian of Light and Time" quote from the Eighth Doctor is genuine. Certainly it wasn't used in the actual TV movie, though perhaps it could be found in the shooting script or the novelization. It sounds more like something from one of the other novels, though. [I don't have a WikiQuote ID, but on Wikipedia I'm... Histrion]

Re - "Guardian of Light in Time" was an expression used only by the Fourth Doctor in the "Key to Time" series, and by the Fifth Doctor in the story "Enlightenment".

Splitting
This page needs to be split as it is very long and growing. I'm proposing that we leave this page as a sort of contents and create: (The latter will include the "companions", "adversaries"/"enemies" and "other characters" sections.
 * The Doctor (Doctor Who)
 * Doctor Who conversation
 * Other Doctor Who characters

Please give your comments by 08:00 UTC on Thursday 25th August as that is when I will split the page Jawr256 07:07, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

How about (As you mentioned, Supporting Characters would of course include sections for "companions", "adversaries" or "enemies" and "other characters".) A similar scheme could also be used on other pages as they grew too large.
 * The Doctor (Doctor Who)
 * Supporting Characters (Doctor Who)
 * Conversations (Doctor Who)

Trying to remember a quote
I remember a conversation between the Fourth Doctor and Romana concerning her name in The Ribos Operation. I know they were kind of tossing up between Romana and Fred (I think she wanted Fred, he wanted to call her Romana). Does anyone know the full quote? --Jb-adder | Talk

The internet says:

D:"Your name!"

R:"What about my name?"

D:"It's too long... by the time I've called out "Look out Romanadv... what's your name again?"

R:"Romanadvoratrelundar!"

D:"By the time I've called that out you could be dead! I'll call you Romana"

R:"I don't like Romana!"

D:"It's either Romana or Fred!"

R:"All right call me Fred!"

D:"Good! Come along Romana!"

Which meshes with my own memory of the conversation.

 * Thanks. I actually went and found a clip of that conversation, so I've transcribed (if that's the word) the convo onto the quotes page. --Jb-adder | Talk

Punctuation
Whoever wrote the quotes on the ninth Doctor had an abysmal sense of punctuation; Someone needs to get in there with a truckload of commas and scatter them pretty thoroughly. If I find the time one of the next days I'll do it. Kamagurka

Also, if people are adding in quotes, please say the full context of what's happened (for example, someone said a quote from 'the Doctor having a really good time'. I mean, when isn't the Doctor having a really good time?) and, if it's a conversation, who said what. And please research the quote a wee bit so that everything is known about it. And if you vaguely remember the quote, don't add it, it just involves more cleanup. :/ Irrevilent 01:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Splitting into multiple pages
Okay, since the first proposed splitting didn't take place, how about this: a seperate page for each Doctor? The changes from Doctor to Doctor are great enough that each Doctor could be considered a seperate show, so it should be simple emough to split the article along those lines. I don't know how often this site gets checked, but if I don't hear any objections by June 17, I'll split along those lines. --Kerowyn 05:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I like that idea. It'll also help me resist peeking at the 10th Doctor quotes while waiting for Series 2 to come over to the US. Trad Redav 23:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. --Joseph Q Publique 01:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't like the idea. It's a quotes page for the programme and that's how it should be, it's not like it's a huge amount and it's well structured enough. Instead, effort should be focused on correcting spelling, grammar and punctuation in quotes already there and reorder them in chronological order of serial and when they're said. Once that's done, they don't have to be split, it just makes it more confusing. Irrevilent 19:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I find the current structure confusing since quotes from the same episode can wind up in one of three different sections.At the very least it should be consolidated by Doctor. But the file size is huge. People generally know which Doctor they're looking for, so I don't think having ten different pages will create any confusion. Just leave this page as a disambiguation page to the 10 subpages. --Kerowyn 02:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

It's my first visit to the Wikiquote section and I think it definitely needs splitting up. Even with the contents links to various parts of the page, it is overly long. It does not look neat - it looks like an amateurish, (which is a bit pot-call-the-kettle-black coming from me, a relative beginner), long list and does it not make reading it easy. Sorry if that sounds a little harsh, it is not meant to, I just think it would look better split up. I agree with the point about leaving this as a contents page, by the way. -- User:Finallycreatedaccount 04:06, 17 June 2006
 * I've also got an idea to port the table from the Firefly page and use it as an organizational template, but that might prove to be beyond my abilities. Kerowyn 19:51, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

To Do List
The split is complete and I'm working on formatting issues on all 10 pages. The major issue now is organizing the quotes by season. This shouldn't be too hard to do, since you can get the info from Wikipedia, but I was hoping someone else would take care of this, since I can only do so much. =) Also the quotes left on the main central page need to be placed with their respective episodes, although the quotes regarding the show itself can be left on the central page. Thanks! --Kerowyn 05:33, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Problems
Where did the Daleks link go?

 * OH MY GOD!!!!!! SOMEONE HAS DELETED THE WHOLE DALEK PAGE!!!!!!!!! WHO THE HELL DID THIS!!!! I DEMAND TO KNOW!!!!!!!

 * A vandal. STUPID VANDALS! I hate them. Maybe even some a**holes from my school (they always diss Doctor Who!)

 * People at my school say things about the Doctor you don't want to hear.

 * I blame the Cybermen.

Unsourced quotes about the programme

 * These should be provided with sources before being moved back into the article.

 * I thought he was full of heart. Full of warmth. I thought he was charismatic, funny, gentle and, and, and there were certain moments in that, that were some of the best moments of Doctor Who ever made.
 * Russell T. Davies, Executive Producer and writer, on The TV movie featuring the 8th Doctor.

 * The fact is the Time Lords did start it, all the way back in Genesis of the Daleks.
 * Russell T. Davies, on the Time War

 * Although Rose doesn't know what this "cockney" dude has to do with the sudden rash of killer mannequins.
 * American TV Guide on the plainly Northern Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston.

Merging companion articles
In keeping with the general idea of Fictional characters, I suggest merging articles on the doctor's companions/sidekicks (Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Donna Noble, Martha Jones, River Song, Amy Pond, & Rory Williams) into the articles on the quoted works, i.e. the Nth Doctor articles. ~ Ningauble 19:29, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * In keeping with a sense of NEED of a repudiation of the general idea of the DRAFT policy of Fictional characters I propose that it actually be VOTED upon within the next couple of months — and to a great extent REJECTED — as an example of the type of OVERLY restrictive and exclusionist policies that have been crafted by increasingly presumptuous cliques which I believe have been driving people away from being contributors on this and other wikimedia wikis — far more than the random ridiculous and contemptible acts of vandalism which they might encounter have. I would also propose that the existing Limits on quotations policy page, which I consider ridiculous and contemptibly overly restrictive ALSO be addressed. I would propose at LEAST a MONTH for people to provide arguments on the issues and perhaps alternative drafts PRIOR to VOTING — and then a period of at least a MONTH for the voting itself. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:11, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Concur I'm one of those ex-contributors, more on Wikipedia than anywhere else. --Joe Sewell (talk) 20:38, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I suggest that Jack Harkness should be kept as his own page, since he is more than just a companion, and is mainly the main character of another show, and while that show is a spinoff of Doctor Who, could very well be counted as enough self-standing for it to count Jack Harkness as more than just a companion of the Doctor.

 * Some have previously proposed exceptions to Limits on quotations for Doctor Who — or their own particular favorite shows. I do not agree with such narrow focus, but agree the currently policy is overly restrictive and overly rigorous and mistaken in many of its presumptions. I encourage anyone who wishes to see more quotes available on this page and pages for all television shows and movies, and to have the rules expressed in terms of general and malleable guidelines rather than rigorous mandated limitations, to register an account name here as soon as possible, so as to become elligible for voting on this and future issues. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:47, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

 * I support this idea as commented on in the Village Pump. Thenub314 15:49, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

The same considerations would apply to nemesis articles: Black Guardian, Cybermen, The Daleks, and The Master. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:49, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Merge - Article can be merged now. OccultZone (talk) 17:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Why? Just because you support the merge? I think there needs to be a bit more consensus before that can happen. In fact since it has now been close to 3 years since the last comment and more than six years since the proposal was first made, I think it's safe to say it isn't going to happen. I'd support removal of the "merge proposal tags" as I think after more than half a decade it's pretty obvious what direction it's going. 136.159.160.4 15:29, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Need for more registration and input by Doctor Who editors — and others.
'I encourage many of the people who have edited here, or at other pages, whether related to Doctor Who'' or not, to register a username so as to more effectively voice opinions and to be able to vote in major issues that occur on the wiki in the months and years to come. '''

At the Village Pump I raised the issue of a need to expand potentials and lessen restrictions on this and other pages. I believe that there is need for extensive discussion and eventually a vote on this matter, within a few months.

I intend to gradually do extensive work on the Doctor Who pages in coming months — adding airdates and links, and doing minor cleanup work. I don't plan to actually add many quotes to the articles initally, but eventually might do so, as I review past episodes of the series in the coming year. I encourage anyone interested in developing the Doctor Who pages more extensively to register a user account here, so as to have more effective influence on policy decisions which need to be confronted in coming months regarding existing guidelines and limitations that have been promoted regarding quotes from TV shows and films, including those of Doctor Who. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:48, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

alternative fan doctor who
yes i have been looking at the wikia doctor who quotes and i want to add my ownn using Rowan Atkinson and Babarba Benedetti alternative doctor who quotes by these two other doctor's doctor who is the best. it rocks the rest david tennant and matt smith love dem
 * Well I do think, though that was a comedy skit, Scream of the Shalka should be added, as, while it may be an alternate timeline now, it most definitely WAS canon back when it was made. So Shalka could potentially be added, as it was OFFICIALLY CANON before 'new who' was made. KoscheiOfGallifrey (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

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Adam Ferguson

Adam Ferguson (June 20, 1723 – 22 February 1816) was a Scottish moral philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

 * Eighth Edition

 * The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
 * PART I, SECTION I.

 * Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.
 * PART I, SECTION II.

 * Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
 * PART I, SECTION III.

 * We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
 * PART I, SECTION IV.

 * Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform.
 * PART I, SECTION V.

 * The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
 * PART II, SECTION I.

 * Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
 * PART III, SECTION I.

 * …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
 * PART III, SECTION I.

 * Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
 * PART III, SECTION II.

 * In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
 * PART IV, SECTION II.

Institutes of Moral Philosophy (1769)

 * Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.
 * Introduction, Section IV, Of Theory, p. 7.

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 * When Adam Ferguson summed up such teaching by defining the savage as a man who did not yet know property (1767/73:136), and when Adam Smith remarked that `nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures or natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that is yours' (1776/1976:26), they expressed what, in spite of recurrent revolts by rapacious or hungry bands, had for practically two millennia been the view of the educated. As Ferguson put it, `It must appear very evident, that property is a matter of progress' (ibid).
 * Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit (1988), Ch. 2: The Origins of Liberty, Property and Justice.

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This category lists politicians and political theorists who were either members of a specific Socialist political party or self-identified as a socialist.

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It seems this page is mixing quotes by Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger. I have reworked Seneca as a disambiguation page instead of link, but need help to actually sort all the quotes to correct pages! Argh what a mess. jni 18:21, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Jeff Sessions

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born 24 December 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 84th Attorney General of the United States from 2017 to 2018. Sessions served as the junior United States senator from Alabama from 1997 until 2017, and is a member of the Republican Party. From 1981 to 1993, he served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.

Quotes

 * The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the Constitution than protect our nation’s security.
 * Said in a derogatory tone on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Monday, 17 December 2007

 * This country does not discriminate. No president, no officer in this country should hold office that has any hint of treating people differently because of the color of their skin or where they came from and that kind of thing. We believe in equality and fair treatment and that's the moral principle that we adhere to as a nation.
 * Interview with Matt Murphy (2016)

 * I love that program (asset forfeiture). We had so much fun doing that, taking drug dealers' money and passing it out to people trying to put drug dealers in jail. What's wrong with that?
 * Sessions welcomes restoration of asset forfeiture: "I love that program", September 1 2017

Attributed

 * We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.
 * Regarding judicial activism while debating on the Senate floor on 06 June 2005 regarding the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the federal judiciary.

Quotes about Jeff Sessions

 * Senator Sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to a central requirement of the job -- to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil rights, equal rights, and justice for all. In fact, at numerous times in his career, he has demonstrated a hostility toward these convictions, and has worked to frustrate attempts to advance these ideals.
 * Cory Booker, as the first Senator to testify against an executive nomination of another Senator, during Jeff Sessions' Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, as quoted in

 * Everybody knows that the war on drugs, as has been fought since the 1980s, has had a disproportionate negative impact on specific community: black communities, Latino communities. Everyone knows that. So, what Jeff Sessions is doing is engaged in—or he’s advocating being engaged in racial discrimination. So let’s call Jeff Sessions what he is. Jeff Sessions is a racist, if he takes on this action. It’s clear. We know it. So let’s stop playing around with it. Jeff Sessions is allowing us or is using drug policy to separate the people who we like from the people who we don’t like. And it provides a way to go after those people we don’t like, usually poor minority folks, without explicitly saying we don’t like those people. And that’s how drug law—that’s how drug law or drug policy has been enforced in this country. And so, if we allow Sessions to turn back the hands of time, then shame on all of us. The blood is on all of our hands, because we know the consequences of his proposed actions...before 2012, we were arresting people for marijuana in Colorado, in Washington and those other states. We’re no longer doing that. Now we’re saying it’s OK. It was always OK. It’s just that our laws were not in line. Now we’re doing—now we’re arresting people for things like cocaine, heroin and those sorts of things, sending people to jail for extended periods of time. Now, this is not to say that we should legalize drugs. That’s not the argument here. We certainly should not be sending people to jail for those extended periods that Jeff Sessions is advocating for. And he’s doing so because he’s going after people who we don’t care for in the United States.
 * Carl Hart, Interview with Democracy Now (2017)

 * we are all concerned about mass incarceration in the country today. If you want to know how we got there, right now what we’re doing, with people like Jeff Sessions and that guy in the White House, is how we got there. And they’re trying to ensure that we go back there, in part because it’s going to affect primarily, negatively affect, black people and brown people in this country. When I say “racist,” I mean when people who support policies and their behaviors are in such a way that one group disproportionately is unjustly treated. And that’s what we have going on right now. So when we have Jeff Sessions saying this sort of thing, the consequences will be racial discrimination. And he’s supporting that kind of policy or that action. That makes him a racist.
 * Carl Hart, Interview with Democracy Now (2017)

 * Jeff Sessions, then-Attorney General of the United States, told prosecutors in May of 2018 to go after the children. "We need to take away children," Sessions said, according to notes of a meeting obtained by The New York Times, "If [you] care about kids, don't bring them in. Won't give amnesty to people with kids." The policy provoked a colossal public backlash, doing immense damage to the perception of the federal deportation machine, a bipartisan edifice erected by immigration hawks from both parties. (p 152 "Not the Right Way")
 * Adam Serwer The Cruelty is the point (2021)

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000) was an American poet. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her book of poems Annie Allen.

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 * It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.
 * "do not be afraid of no" from Annie Allen (1949)

 * Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
 * "exhaust the little moment" from Annie Allen (1949)

 * We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
 * "We ReaI CooI", The Bean Eaters (1960)
 * The "We"—you're supposed to stop after the "We" and think about their validity, and of course there's no way for you to tell whether it should be said softly or not, I suppose, but I say it rather softly because I want to represent their basic uncertainty, which they don't bother to question every day, of course.
 * "An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks", Contemporary Literature 11:1 (Winter 1970)
 * The WEs in "We Real Cool" are tiny, wispy, weakly argumentative "Kilroy-is-here" announcements. The boys have no accented sense of themselves, yet they are aware of a semi-defined personal importance. Say the "We" softly.
 * Report from Part One (1972)

 * Art hurts. Art urges voyages— and it is easier to stay at home.
 * "The Chicago Picasso" (1968)

 * When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
 * "An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks", Contemporary Literature 11:1 (Winter 1970)

 * A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
 * Report From Part One (1972)

 * As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
 * Report From Part One (1972)

 * Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
 * Black Poetry Writing (1975)

There is a preference for candy bars.'''
 * '''Truth-tellers are not always palatable.
 * Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle (1988)

 * Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
 * Advice to graduates, Buena Vista University Graduation (1995)

 * I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
 * My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget (1995) by Dorothy Winbush Riley

 * I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
 * Quoted in her obituary in The Guardian (7 December 2000)

 * To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
 * "To Be In Love"

 * He is not there but You know you are tasting together The winter, or a light spring weather. His hand to take your hand is overmuch. Too much too bear.
 * "To Be In Love"

 * I shall not sing a May song. A May song should be gay. I'll wait until November And sing a song of gray.
 * "The Crazy Woman"

 * And all the little people Will stare at me and say, "That is the Crazy Woman Who would not sing in May."
 * "The Crazy Woman"

 * I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell.
 * "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell"

 * Already you're on Page 8.
 * "Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg"

 * consider the big fists breaking your little bones, or consider the vague bureaucrats stumbling, fumbling through Paper.
 * "Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg"

 * Is earnest enough, may earnest attract or lead to light; Is light enough, if hands in clumsy frenzy, flimsy whimsically, enlist; Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades? Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.
 * "garbageman: the man with the orderly mind"

 * Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right.
 * Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward

The Mother (1945)

 * Published in A Street in Bronzeville (1945)

 * Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or buy with a sweet. You will never wind up the sucking-thumb Or scuttle off ghosts that come.

 * I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children. I have contracted. I have eased My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck. I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized Your luck And your lives from your unfinished reach, If I stole your births and your names, Your straight baby tears and your games, Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, and your deaths, If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.

 * What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

 * Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.

Winnie (1988)

 * I pass you my Poem.

'''A poem doesn’t do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking.''' You are supposed to enrich the other person’s poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.
 * "Song of Winnie"

we are all vulnerable''' — the midget, the Mighty, the richest, the poor. Men, women, children, and trees. I am vulnerable.
 * '''I pass you my Poem! — to tell you
 * "Song of Winnie"

It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.
 * My Poem is life, and not finished.

'''Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can. ''' I give you what I have. You don’t get all your questions answered in this world. How many answers shall be found in the developing world of my Poem? I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem, which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.
 * "Song of Winnie"

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed

 * Rudolph Reed was oaken. His wife was oaken too. And his two good girls and his good little man Oakened as they grew.

 * Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed, Nary a curse cursed he, But moved in his House. With his dark little wife, And his dark little children three.

 * The first night, a rock, big as two fists. The second, a rock big as three. But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed. (Though oaken as man could be.) The third night, a silvery ring of glass. Patience arched to endure, But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood Was staining her gaze so pure.

 * He ran like a mad thing into the night And the words in his mouth were stinking. By the time he had hurt his first white man He was no longer thinking. By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead. His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse. "Nigger—" his neighbors said.

 * Small Mabel whimpered all night long, For calling herself the cause. Her oak-eyed mother did no thing But change the bloody gauze.

The Good Man

 * The good man. He is still enhancer, renouncer. In the time of detachment, in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil, in the time of oral grave grave legalities of hate - all real walks our prime registered reproach and seal. Our successful moral. The good man.

 * Coherent Counsel! Good man. Require of us our terribly excluded blue. Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land. Put hand in hand land over. Reprove the abler droughts and manias of the day and a felicity entreat. Love. Complete your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew stance, testament.

A Sunset of the City

 * Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls, Are gone from the house. My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite And night is night.

 * It is a real chill out, The genuine thing. I am not deceived, I do not think it is still summer Because sun stays and birds continue to sing.

 * It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes I am aware there is winter to heed. There is no warm house That is fitted with my need.

 * Come: there shall be such islanding from grief, And small communion with the master shore. Twang they. And I incline this ear to tin, Consult a dual dilemma. Whether to dry In humming pallor or to leap and die.

 * Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke.

Paul Robeson

 * Published in Family Pictures (1971)

 * That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. The major Voice. The adult Voice forgoing Rolling River, forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge and other symptoms of an old despond. Warning, in music-words devout and large, that we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.

"Corners on the Curving Sky"

 * Our earth is round, and, among other things That means that you and I can hold completely different Points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show Stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, While mine, at the same moment, Spreads beautiful to darkness.
 * The above statements have been widely published in the above format as lines of verse attributed to Brooks, usually as a poem titled "Corners on the Curving Sky" — but one website indicated that she declared she did not write them. The words actually occur as an introduction to the "Corners on the Curving Sky" section of the book Soulscript (1970) compiled by June Jordan, in which other poems of Brooks were included, and thus is apparently the work of Jordan. It appears simply in paragraph form and reads thus:
 * Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter. These poems speak to philosophy; they reveal the corners where we organize what we know.

Quotes about Gwendolyn Brooks

 * Until the publication of Brooks's Maud Martha, only Zora Neale Hurston had populated her fiction and folklore with ordinary people. Hurston's works, however, were southern and rural, and although they have been vastly important in the development of a literary self-portraiture of Afro-American women, it was Brooks's novel (and poetry) that launched a genre embedded in northern, urban, ghetto experience which encouraged the subsequent works of Paule Marshall, Ann Petry, and Alice Childress, among many others...For many Brooks's works in general, and Maud Martha in particular, were a touchstone, inscribing Black womanhood, as Paule Marshall once observed, "in all the wonder of her complexity." Maud Martha, published in 1953, presaged the literary outpouring by Black women since the early 1960s...The pioneering achievement of Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha was that it offered a mirror, inviting Black women to look at themselves and their urban, working-class community through the eyes of one of their own. In its emphasis on relationship, in its attention to community, in its relentless probing of the consequences of racism, in its conjuring of the intimate through interior dialogue and the interior space of Maud Martha's home, Brooks's novel expressed precisely both a female sensibility and the wisdom and insight drawn from everyday life.
 * Bettina Aptheker Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989)

 * A black woman would have tremendous difficulties, like a black man, to go to the nitty gritty, to express what is really going on inside. Because what happens is that you are being treacherous. By telling the truth about myself I am telling the truth about my father, my mother and a whole lot of other people, too. You can get crucified for that…it's one of the things that happen when you live in a sick society. And some black women like Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall have gotten beyond that at whatever price, but they got beyond it.
 * 1980 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley (1989)

 * I did not read any Langston Hughes until I was an adult, but I remember being carried away by him and Gwendolyn Brooks.
 * 1996 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler (2009)

 * (At National Black Theater performance) I was in awe of the words I witnessed that day. It was the first time that I heard the works of writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka. I heard poetry that was about me, that was very immediate. I connected to it in a visceral way. That experience moved me so profoundly that I went home and that night I wrote my first batch of poems. It was like the floodgates opened. That reading empowered me with a voice and gave me permission to express everything that had been festering in me for years. So I just started experimenting with language and writing all kinds of things.
 * Sandra María Esteves interview (2001) in A Poet's Truth by Bruce Allen Dick

 * When I read Jefferson's disparagement of Wheatley, it felt like he had been disparaging the entire lineage of Black poets who would follow her, myself included, and I saw a man who had not had a clear understanding of what love is...When Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the children on the South Side of Chicago playing with one another in neighborhoods left neglected by the city, it was an act of love...
 * Clint Smith (writer), How the Word is Passed (2021)

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P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 July 1810 – 7 April 1891) was an American showman who is remembered for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He is also known for his entertaining hoaxes.

Quotes

 * I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
 * As quoted in P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman (1995) by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. and Philip B. Kunhardt III, ISBN 0-679-43574-3, p. vi

The Humbugs of the World (1865)

 * The Humbugs of the World

 * But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.
 * Chapter XXVIII

Art of Money Getting (1880)

 * Art of Money Getting : Rules for Making Money

 * Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
 * Ch. 3: "Avoid Debt"

 * The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
 * Ch. 10: "Let hope predominate but be not too visionary"

 * Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
 * Ch. 17: "Be polite and kind to your customers"

 * The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
 * Ch. 18: "Be charitable"

 * In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
 * Ch. 20: "Preserve your integrity"

 * The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
 * Ch. 20: "Preserve your integrity"

Disputed

 * Always leave them wanting more.
 * Commonly attributed to Barnum without citation; such as in "Pardon My French: How a Grumpy American Fell in Love with France" by Allen Johnson

Misattributed

 * There's a sucker born every minute.
 * Commonly attributed to Barnum, there is much testimony of contemporaries that he never actually said this, and in "P. T. Barnum Never Did Say "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" R. J. Brown asserts that it actually originated with a banker named David Hannum, in reference to one of Barnum's hoaxes: a replica of the Cardiff Giant.

 * Every crowd has a silver lining.
 * The first appearance of this quote in print was in the July 1908 issue of the journal Profitable Advertising under the heading "Modernized Maxims." It next appeared in the June 1911 issue of The Philistine where Elbert Hubbard labeled it: "motto for a hotel-keeper." In the 1920s, it was published with the label: "Pickpocket's motto." The attribution to P.T. Barnum didn't appear in print until a 1934 article in Reader's Digest.

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