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“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”

— Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea

humans are obsessed with escapism - through movies, books, music, art, daydreams. our souls really weren’t made for this world.

“There are persons who honestly do not see the use of books in the home, either for information — have they not radio and even television? — or for decoration — is there not the wallpaper?”

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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)

“I’d much rather have one great person to talk to every night than have several pointless conversations with temporary people.”

— Unknown

when Charles Bukowski said "and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"

“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”

— James Hillman

“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”

— Unknown