May 2011
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“There are no asterisks in this life, only scoreboards.”
– Ari Motherfucken Gold
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– Calvin Coolidge
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on anticipation
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best—” and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
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Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy by Jeffrey Daniels
Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice
the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive insect of glitter, a chandelier shining at the end
of a long tunnel. Thirteen years ago, you hid the hurt in your voice under a blanket and said there’s two kinds of women—those you write poems about
and those you don’t. It’s true. I never brought you a bouquet of...
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“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an...”
– Paul Bowles—on Brandon Lee’s tombstone
April 2011
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“If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Grandma asks why he says he would do anything for money. The Young Man replies...”
– American Dream
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“To those whom much is given much is expected”
– JFK
