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“Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

tags: favors, gods, memory, moderation, pain, sleep, suffering, wisdom

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“Poetry is a beacon slicer.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: poetry

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“The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions”
― Bill Hicks

tags: humour

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“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: poetry, present

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“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: commonsense, prose, sense

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