"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)
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Hello el heffe…how goes it?
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It goes! I moved back to Calgary and doing great. I was working in concrete until this week it turned to cold and snowed so now I think I will go Drilling Oil. I would have texted you but lost your # when I lost my phone!
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How have you been?
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Ive been better.
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Hi there beautiful, remember me? Been a while since I last read you. As always very powerful poem and I like the rythm it has.
With all so many followers is hard to keep up with everyone, trying my best.
Guess what, November 10th going to a detox center as inpatient, so for 2 weeks no phone no nothing, I’m off the grid. This outpatient thing didn’t work quite well so I decided to go full on patient inside. Great Santa Clause day if they let me out, but things seem to get better. I hope your daughter is doing good, and all the best to you…blondie!!
love ya.
P.S. Really nice read.
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Hello Handsome man, of course I remember you!!! You’re unforgettable. Whatever you do and wherever you go: just make it count…life is a short, cruel bitch either way.
Much love to you always and ever Char Char…xo
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Brilliant!
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