"It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me."

-- Oliver Sacks

“The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?â€ Stannis snorted. â€œCeltigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.”
“When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.”

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“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.”
“The Russians wanted Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton. Their entire intervention in the American president election - from the news bots, to allies like Carter Page, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn to the meeting with Don Jr. - was about hoping to elect a president who would ease the sanctions that pinch the oligarchy that enables Vladimir Putin.”

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“Daddy looked at her hard, and right before my eyes, he changed. I watched him inflate again, shake off his own emotions and puff himself up for her. Become her man. Her rock. I smiled. I loved him so much. He'd dragged mom kicking and screaming from grief once before and I knew I could rest easy that he would never let grief steal her from him again. No matter what happened to me.”
“But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.”

Source : Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”
“Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.”
“A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter”

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