Joe Brainard famous quotes
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I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by “Are you asleep yet?†and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life.
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If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.
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Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.
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If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.
-- Joe Brainard
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When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
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How long does getting thin take?
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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