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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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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize…
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We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my…
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I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to…
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She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had…
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
— Carl Sagan
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Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise. Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at…
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In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself.…
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bringing My Boyfriend (met on hotblackwhite.com) Home to Mom...Is Interracial Dating still such a big deal for people to grasp? The collective…
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