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- If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where…
- On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden…
- Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes…
- But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What…
- Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before…
- A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no…
- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk…
- The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into…
- Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if…
- Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if…
- Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and…
- Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
- At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.…
- All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with…
- we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a…
- Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe…
- In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times…
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- Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You looked into my eyes and whispered that you wanted to be with me, all my heart wanted to do was say… — Superman
- I used too be the girl that would be soo happy to walk into the classroom and say'guess who just walked in… — Jasmine