"It is the distance between us that creates language."

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Source : Robin Skelton (1995). “Or So I Say: Contentions & Confessions : a Happenstance Book”, p.65, Ekstasis Editions

Robin Skelton

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“It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.”
“Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.”
“Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.”

Source : "How To Live To 100 - Nine Healthy Habits" by Dan Buettner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2008.
“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, itâ€™s indispensable.”
“We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.”
“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.”
“There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.”
“This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.”

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