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- Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
- The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects…
- Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
- The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole…
- Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts…
- I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so…
- Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
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