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#1

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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#2

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#3

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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#4

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

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#5

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#6

“opened cage
if only you'd obey the words of spring
go in please”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

tags: art, elancharan, haiku, love, poem, poetry, quote, senryu, singapore, world

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#7

“Human bodies are such garbage bags.”
― Dennis Cooper, Frisk

tags: humans

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#8

“A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.”
― Thomas H. Cook, The Crime of Julian Wells

tags: tourist, traveler

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#9

“cold walls
no need to whisper
I hear you”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

tags: art, elancharan, haiku, love, poem, poetry, quote, senryu, singapore, world

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#10

“arms thrashing
dragging bodies from the sea
limp dreams”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

tags: art, elancharan, haiku, love, poem, poetry, quote, senryu, singapore, world

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#11

“Be brave, be forever.”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

tags: dark, elancharan, love, peace, poem, poet, poetry, singapore, world

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#12

“There is in this world
No such force as the force of
A person determined to rise.

The human soul
Cannot be permanently chained.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

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#13

“I owe them gods
a bottle of whiskey
and a bullet each”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

tags: art, elancharan, haikus, love, poem, poetry, quote, senryu, singapore, world

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#14

“This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Acid House

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#15

“Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

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#16

“at dawn
boring holes in the skull
bullets”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

tags: art, elancharan, haiku, love, poem, poetry, quote, senryu, singapore, world

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#17

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#18

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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#19

“The street finds its own uses for things.”
― William Gibson

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