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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,…
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When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a…
— Sappho
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How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young,…
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The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of…
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I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of…
— Ray Bradbury
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
— Ellen Hopkins
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These tears that I cry may not mean nothing to anyone anymore but I still manage to over come all those sad…
— Alexia
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How can you know what I'm feeling when it's locked inside? To wear it on my body tells what words cannot describe…
— Unknown Author
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There's this indescribable ache that swarms beneath my skin on random days and I am always saying 'fuck off' but it never…
— Needa Muy
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