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Your fears encompass as much information about your world as your library.




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If you make truth a frequent companion, courage will be your friend.

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To be an artist is to be forever hungry for things you have never tasted, to relentlessly search for things you have never seen and can't understand, to repeatedly and warmly welcome back the most confused, lonely and unfair part of yourself, and the world- all for the singular joy of having something you can only experience by releasing it.



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Unforgettable music awakens abandoned hopes and forgotten dreams.

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It's the hidden things- like enigmas in dreams- that most often remind us that choices abound.




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Start at the beginning- then work back.

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Love restores hope, hope imagination, imagination memory, memory emotion, emotion song.




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Truth is a ladder composed of painful steps but at the top one you see from the sky.

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Thought is a delicate thing- nearly anything can interrupt or disturb it- particularly- as with most things- if you take too much at one time.




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Come to your own conclusions- or never see anything come to one.

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Everything is going downhill so fast- but we'll need the momentum- the next slope could be the steepest one yet.




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God created the world in 7 days- 3 of them waiting to get online, 2 to clear out the spam, 1 to download and 1 to rest.

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Even when today's novels, stories and poems eliminate the plots they never eradicate the twists.



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I think I found what I was looking for: looking for.

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Everything is pushing my buttons today- except the one that says "on."




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Peace and quiet- there goes the diet.

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How many nascent ideas, skewered like game, lay dead at your feet?




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Time wasted is time tasted.

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As the truth tellers grow more numerous, passionate and articulate, the liars become more organized, cunning and cruel.




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Open your mind quickly and your mouth slowly.

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As perplexity frequently foreshadows the new, adoration as often augurs the old.



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Opinions and affections mixed together, like vinegar and oil, may spice something bland, but left to themselves they quickly separate.

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It's molting season: shed the old regrets and fly.




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Don't be too nicey to those who are icy.

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Wit is used more often to silence than to say.




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Ipod therefore I am.




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A Writer's Lament: the Bipolar side of Blake

Came across this surprisingly personal poem by Blake, written in a letter to Thomas Butts, August 16, 1803.


"O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
When I look each one starts! When I speak I offend;
Then I'm silent & passive & lose every Friend.

Then my verse I dishonor. My pictures despise,
My person degrade & my temper chastise;
And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
All my Talents I bury, and dead is my Fame.

I am either too low or too highly priz'd;
When Elate I am Envied, when Meek I'm despis'd."


[Penguin Classics Blake
edited by Alicia Ostriker]

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Your shadow's quicksands will also follow you: beware the abyss.




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There's more to you than meets the I.

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Decision's pendulum can seem slow- but let it sway until you know.




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Cynical, wary- alert, prepared; vulerable, earnest- dreamy, astonished.

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The more you know what's new the less you learn what's true.






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To know is more enlightening, but less comforting, than to be known.

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Futility in the morning, despair at noon, devastation at night: next news update 11 p. m.





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The essence of happiness: don't give up.

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The admirable attributes of who and what you love have captured your devotion but it is the enigmatic qualities you think about.



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Originality is impossible where imitation is universal.

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Regarding mistakes with a degree of tolerant affection lessens worry and enhances change.




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Spend your whole life annoyed with the rules of others or take a few moments creating your own.

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If you forget what it is like to go hungry you will forget what it's like to taste anything.




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