"After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought."

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Source : Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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“Here's my theory: I think both fiction and role-playing games involve a narrative journey. When that journey never ends, it feeds an addictive cycle. When that journey has an end, it brings us back to ourselves and to our own lives. This return allows us to reflect. Perhaps this is why I prefer a closed structure for books and games.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing he would do is create categories; the avowed purpose of Zen is to eliminate categories! The true Zen-man holds to the old Taoist proverb, Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
“He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself”
“...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.”
“Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.”

Source : Isaac Watts, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1850). “Parish psalmody: A collection of psalms and hymns for public worship: containing Dr. Watts's versification of the psalms of David, entire, a large portion of Dr. Watts's hymns, and psalms and hymns by other authors, selected and original. To which are appended, the confession of faith and Shorter catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.”, p.348
“Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.”
“[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist”
“This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.”

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