"The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call."

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Source : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press

Bob Hicok

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“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
“I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past.”
“I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.”
“The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.”
“I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.”

Source : "POP QUIZ / Q & A With Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. March 18, 2001.
“We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. Without inner peace it is impossible to achieve world peace, external peace. Weapons themselves do not act. They have not come out of the blue. Man has made them. But even given those weapons, those terrible weapons, they cannot act by themselves. As long as they are left alone in storage they cannot do any harm. A human being must use them. Someone must push the button. Satan, the evil powers, cannot push that button. Human beings must do it.”
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

Source : "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.
“As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36); (2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-, (3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82); (4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and (5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107).”

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