"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)
Hi ya, you’re still writing great things. Hope you’re well 🙂
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Wordidge awards a plenty
Major cool write, I am in awe
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Hey girl, long time no words.
Starting to think you didn’t like us no more.
As for the shark?
The thing I like about them is they have to keep moving to live,
As for it’s shadow?
It will soon pass leaving you unharmed and beautifully camouflaged as only nature can do.
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You have the keen ability to become a poet when it suits your means of communication. I like that about you.
Thank you for the supportive words, Paul. Much love to you and yours. XO
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Nice of you to say that girl.
Except I ain’t non poet and the spell check runs red hot on anything more than ten words. Drives SWMBO mad does that but she is the brains for both of us.
Keep safe, AND XO goes back 2 yer from us both.
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As long as you are his shadow and not his lunch…………………………. you OK?
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