"Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control."

-- Robert Bringhurst

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“What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.”
“If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.”
“Garry Shandling is someone I've publicly gone gay for, for jokes. Oh and anyone in the Twilight movies. I don't know any of their names, but all of them. The wolves, the vampires? They're all fantastic.”
“If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.”
“The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is confirmed, ratified, sealed, and made enduringly good by virtue of Christ's rising from death. Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.”
“Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.”
“The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.”

Source : "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.
“When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.”

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