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David Berman

"It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective."

-- David Berman

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“Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.”

Source : William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I've always had mixed feelings. I don't know if it's any better or worse. I do think there's a really boring side of what's going on now - the over-repetitive, oversexualized thing. There's a lot of women that know better, that are really beautiful and sexy, but it's like: We know you can shake your ass in a G-string and wave it around, it's not that risque. It's not dangerous. It's very obvious and boring.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.”
“All of us have times when we think we are ugly,but all.of us have a unique beauty others do not have.”
“He's a freak. Just like me. Just like all those Kane-a-nites out there! And you know what, Freaks are cool!”
“Your life wasn't meant to be a struggle; it was meant to be an adventure. Start living the adventure now!”
“Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.”
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”

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