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Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk". Charles Simic
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months. Anne Lamott
She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release. Peter Straub
He thought he saw a Rattlesnake. That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was. The Middle of Next Week.'The one thing I regret,' he said,'Is that it cannot speak! Lewis Carroll
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put... Virginia Woolf
Doom. Doom. You sound like a funeral bell tolling,' said Grandfather. 'Talk like that is worse than swearing. I won't wash out your mouth with soap, however. A thimbleful of dandelion wine is indicated. Here, now, swig it down What's it taste like?' 'I'm a fire-eater! Whoosh!' 'Now upstairs, run three times around the block, do five somersets, six pushups, climb two trees, and you'll be concertmaster instead of chief mourner. Get!' On his way, running, Douglas thought, 'Four pushups, one tree... Ray Bradbury
Miley Cyrus quote: "I though you said it was easy, listening to your heart. I..."
I though you said it was easy, listening to your heart. I thought you said I'd be okay. So why am I breaking apart. Miley Cyrus
George R. R. Martin quote: "What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!"
What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! George R. R. Martin
That image - of a little child being suffocated, or almost suffocated, by others who thought the whole thing was a game - melded with the furtive nocturnal slugs, and my solitary pacing and singing, and the separate, claustrophobic stairway, and the charmless abstract painting, and the gold-framed mirror, and the slithery green satin bedspread, and became inseperable from them. It wasn't a cheerful composite. As a memory, it is more like a fog bank than a sunlit meadow. Yet I think of that... Margaret Atwood
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen,..."
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. Vincent Van Gogh
But then the dove of hope began its downward slope. And I believed for a moment that my chances. Were approaching to be grabbed. But as it came down near, so did a weary tear. I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag. Fiona Apple
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42- and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was. Douglas Adams
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. Joseph Conrad
She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her. Katherine Mansfield
He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the face of the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal - or even just a simple thought. Paulo Coelho

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