"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."

-- George Carlin

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“But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.”
“Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”
“Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.”

Source : "The Urgent Matter of Books" by Lidia Yuknavitch, therumpus.net. May 03, 2011.
“It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my lungs burn and my back rebels with that stabbing knife feeling and my legs muscles harden and the half inch of loose skin around my waist jiggles, I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.”
“I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.”
“If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.”
“A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]”
“The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.”

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