"Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided."

-- Jim Beaver

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“I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.”
“The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.”
“The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.”
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.50, New Directions Publishing
“It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.”
“Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.”
“I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.”
“Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.”

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