"It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once."

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Source : Song: Conversations with the Devil

Ray Wylie Hubbard

#Unusual Quotes #Born Quotes

“...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...”
“Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive”
“...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.”
“When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?”
“So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.”
“Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.”
“Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that." "Just the usual ones," she says. "How was the weekend?" "Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?”

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