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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. Walt Whitman
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic. Chris Hedges
Voltaire quote: "If God created us in his own image, we have more than..."
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."(Notebooks) Voltaire
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere Dashiell Hammett
Wallace Stegner quote: "It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other..."
It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks. Wallace Stegner
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover.'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while. Before I die for ever. A. E. Housman
Herman Wouk quote: "I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A..."
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule. Herman Wouk
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe. Neil Gaiman
Mark Twain quote: "The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do..."
The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. Mark Twain
Julio Cortazar quote: "Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a..."
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature Julio Cortazar
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William S. Burroughs
Bertrand Russell quote: "Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is..."
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand Russell
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable..."
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. Arthur Conan Doyle
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "fary lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal. L. M. Montgomery
The most exquisite parado? as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. Ram Dass

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