"Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow."

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Source : Carl Phillips (2014). “The Rest of Love: Poems”, p.40, Macmillan

Carl Phillips

#Pain Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Weight Quotes

“I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.”
“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.”
“One of the terrible things about George W. Bush Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news. The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.”

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“Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.”
“I know stories of Tupac, but I was really, really young when he passed. The fact that he was such a thespian, and so passionate about his craft, was shocking to me in a way. I'm shocked to see that here's this man that passed at 25 that we're still talking about, 20 plus years later. That's an eye-opener for me.”

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“I'll always build houses.”
“You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.”
“If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.”

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