"The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth."
- Dean Koontz
“Words are the only bullets in Truth’s bandolier. And Poets are the Snipers.”
– Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb
“And above it all the butterfly affect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings...”
- Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man
"Every expression of closeness has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth."
- Dean Koontz
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
- Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones
"After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)
"Well hey, these things just snap right off!"
- Gary Larson
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"There's nothing to writing, really...all you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."
- Sam Levenson
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
- Hosea Ballou
"Sweater: n;
A garment worn by a child when its mother is chilly."
- Ambrose Pierce
"Stupidity has a price, and it always get's paid."
- Dan Simmons, (The Fall of Hyperion)
Been thinking of you, so good to see a post today. Packs a punch this one.
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Reblogged this on Americana Injustica.
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Hell yer that holds an edge of a vicious charm
Friggin class A work
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Thank you, Shadow. Xx
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XXX
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https://beastsofarticulation.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/her-face-in-the-movies/
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One your most heartfelt and real captures in time. ..drugged or not, Bravo!
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As long as it gets you through the day. Sending huge hugs my friend. I miss you J! Xx
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Xx
Ditto CJ
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Hey you… Thinking of you – sending love and hugs over ☺
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Xx Si
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I just wanna hug you hun. I know it wouldn’t do much good. But you have a good heart that needs to be healed xx
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