"Spelling is a way to make words safe,……" — Ben Marcus
"Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth."
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33 Quotes by Ben Marcus
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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
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Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
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People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this…
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To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no…
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Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this…
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Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.
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Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to…
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RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full…
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Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant…
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Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I…
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A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part…
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
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