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kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
Franz Kafka
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kiss
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Theme:
work
,
trust
Written
over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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lose
hope
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behind
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Theme:
humor
Written
on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
Erma Bombeck
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tombstone
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Theme:
life
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love
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religion
Written
in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, life is hell." Nothing led up to or away from it. Alone on the page, and in the sickly stillness of the room, the words appeared to have the stature of an uncontestable, even classic indictment. X stared at the page for several minutes, trying, against heavy odds, not to be taken in. Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, "Fathers and teachers, I ponder, 'What is Hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
J. D. Salinger
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lead
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things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue--where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk--otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.
Mark Twain
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break
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Theme:
reading
,
life
Written
on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
Jeanette Winterson
book
eye
hand
story
body
secret
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Theme:
poetry
Written
poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Adrian Mitchell
read
performance
provocative
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Theme:
imagination
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reports stifle creativity.
Ross Perot
creativity
stifle
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by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
John Ciardi
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milk
sugar
sponge
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sprinkled
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Theme:
reading
,
poetry
Written
poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
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worth
poet
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694
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