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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
09 Saturday Jan 2016
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
06 Saturday Sep 2014
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
~Confucius
08 Sunday Jun 2014
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in“We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
05 Saturday Oct 2013
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America was not shut down properly. Would you like to start America in safe mode, with free healthcare and without the guns? (Recommended)
— Chris Hall (@cshallwriter) October 1, 2013
01 Monday Jul 2013
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“I had stopped going to confession right after my mother died. Even as a young boy I had performed it grudgingly and with no payoff I was ever aware of. But in writing those words I felt at least an intuition of gracious release. To strip yourself of pretense is to overthrow a hard master, the fear of giving yourself away, and in that one sentence I gave myself away beyond all recall. Now there was nothing to do but go on.”
Tobias Wolff, Old School, 2003
21 Sunday Oct 2012
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inAnd that is what art is for.
It’s a place to put the things you can’t bear to live with, because you cannot bear to live without them.
22 Wednesday Feb 2012
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“I mean that you are making things to be more difficult than they are, or need to be. The facts of life are very simple. In the beginning we feared everything – animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky – everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No one knows why anyone does anything. No one tells the truth. No one is happy. No one is safe. In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is the dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate. “
P92 Shantaram.
“Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.” P 52
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