"Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!"

-- Thom Hartmann

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“Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.”
“If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.”
“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”
“Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.”
“I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.”

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“With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.”
“Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christâ€™s blood, Christâ€™s gospel, Christâ€™s church, and Christâ€™s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays â€˜bottled upâ€™, confined to the historical skins of Palestine.”
“Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.”

Source : Mark Doty (1996). “Heaven's Coast: A Memoir”, Harpercollins

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