"Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)"

-- Edmond Jabes

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“I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.”
“Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.”
“I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker”
“If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.”
“Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.”
“I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.”
“At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.”

Source : Richard Aldington, Michael Copp (2002). “An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington”, p.52, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.”

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