December 2010
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What better way to get to know a man than by examining his thoughts? What if I stood on the side of a highway with an empty root beer bottle and captured the noise and sent it away locked in a fleet of seashells and people across the world picked them up and drank through their ears the long sad sighs of a dying country? What if one day everyone on earth woke up and could only say their favourite...
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He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, …Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow, By fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten, Your brain to bubble cool,— Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.
- Emily Dickinson
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I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.
- Starlings in Winter, Mary Oliver
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Perhaps 50% of our friends and relations will tell you in good faith that it was my drinking that drove Zelda mad, and the other half would assure you that it was her madness that drove me to drink. Neither of these judgments means much of anything. These two groups of friends and relations would be unanimous in saying that each of us would have been much better off without the other. The irony is...
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Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
