"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- theyâ€™ll go through anything. You read and youâ€™re pierced."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.”
“People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.”
“Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”
“You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.”

Source : Interview with Paul Eide, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.
“The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.”
“You totally value and respect your body as you get older.”
“You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.”
“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”

Source : Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.28, Beacon Press

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