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• manly
• old man
• grandpa

Here I am in the garden laughingan old woman with heavy breastsand a nicely mapped facehow did this happenwell that's who I wanted to beat last a womanin the old style sittingstout thighs apart undera big skirt grandchild slidingon off my lap a pleasantsummer perspirationthat's my old man across the yardhe's talking to the meter readerhe's telling him the world's sad storyhow electricity is oil or uraniumand so forth I tell my grandsonrun over to your grandpa ask himto sit beside me for a... Grace Paley

• computer
• new
• gorgeous

Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance. Stephen King

• hope
• time
• feeling

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on. Alan Watts

• moralism
• beginnings
• begining

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted." -- Jane Austen's Letters August 1796 Jane Austen

• small
• god
• free

Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on! Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. I would be free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Praetorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with. By heavens! I'll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself... Herman Melville

• lies
• heart
• earth

Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence, Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance. His body, empty, prowls the earth, Earning what a body’s worth. If his body and his essence remain apart, Burn his body, but spare this, his heart Kurt Vonnegut

• prodigious
• prodigy
• how

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy. David Foster Wallace

• beautiful
• beauty
• world

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. Frederick Buechner

• heart
• poetry
• perfect

Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or... Pat Conroy

• winning
• war
• cold

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. Ronald Reagan

• single
• waiting
• moments

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. Anton Chekhov

• fake smile
• tired
• smile

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place Taylor Swift

• thankful
• thanks
• weird

Here in Britain, of course, it's Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day Warren Ellis

• age
• question
• heavenly

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven? Jodi Picoult

• beautiful
• beauty
• light

Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am... Paul Auster