"My biggest fear isn't crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin - it's sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking 'I wish I'd done more'"

-- Graeme Obree

#Thinking Quotes #Wish Quotes #Skins Quotes

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
“One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.”
“How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.”
“There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.”
“The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.”
“The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'”
“I did not give Xanax or anything else to my child.”
“The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.”

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