"I make jokes. That's what I do."

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Source : "Fictional character: Mike Scarlatti". "Flashpoint (TV Series): Blue on Blue", www.imdb.com. 2011.

Wyatt Cenac

“Your wealth is where your friends are”
“When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.”

Source : Saint Symeon (the New Theologian), Paul McGuckin (1982). “The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses”
“The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle”
“Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.”
“No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.”
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
“I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.”
“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”

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