"To be saved is here, local and mortal"

--

A. R. Ammons

“My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.”

Source : "Interview: Amy Weber interview". www.askmen.com.
“I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.”
“When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.”
“So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.”

Source : William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”
“Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!”
“Wise is the one who learns from anotherÂ´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.”
“That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.”
“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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