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    Eugene O'Neill
    “Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

    Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.”
    Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #8
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #12
    Diane Wakoski
    “Sour Milk

    You can't make it
    turn sweet
    again.
    Once
    it was an innocent color
    like the flowers of wild strawberries,
    and its texture was simple
    would pass through a clean cheesecloth,
    its taste was fresh.
    And now
    with nothing more guilty that the passage of time
    to chide it with,
    the same substance
    has turned sour and lumpy.

    The sour milk
    makes interesting & delicious doughs,
    can be carried to a further state of bacterial action
    to create new foods,
    can in its own right
    be considered complicated and more interesting in texture
    to one who studies it closely,
    like a map of the world.

    But
    to most of us:
    it is spoiled.
    Sour.
    We throw it out,
    down the drain-not in the backyard-
    careful not to spill any
    because the smell is strong.
    A good cook
    would be shocked
    with the waste.
    But we do not live in a world of good cooks.

    I am the milk.
    Time passes.
    You cannot make it
    turn sweet
    again.
    I sit guiltily on the refrigerator shelf
    trembling with hope for a cook
    who dreams of waffles,
    biscuits, dumplings
    and other delicious breads
    fearing the modern housewife
    who will lift me off the shelf and with one deft twist
    of a wrist...
    you know the rest.

    You are the milk.
    When it is your turn
    remember,
    there is nothing more than the passage of time
    we can chide you with.”
    Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987
    tags: poem

  • #13
    E.E. Cummings
    “Miracles are to come.
    With you I leave a remembrance
    of miracles: they are by
    somebody who can love
    and who shall be continually reborn,
    a human being.”
    e.e. cummings
    tags: poem



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