January 2012
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“you’ve got to burn
straight up and down
and then maybe sidewise
for a...”
– Charles Bukowski, Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck, from “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
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“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long...”
– J.D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”
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“In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the...”
– Leonard Cohen, from “Love Itself”
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“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence....”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
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“There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before;...”
– Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth
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“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
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“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every hour holy....”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Hours
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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found…”
– John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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