"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." John Milton

"My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet." Shel Silverstein

"The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of." Burt Bacharach

"The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. To read it all, one must be a linguist more learned than Father Wisdom and a visionary more clairvoyant than Mother Dream; but to feel it, one must be an apostle: one who is more than intimate in having been, always, the only confidant -- like the earth or the sky." Alfred Kreymborg

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu

"No one has full mastery before reaching the end of his art and his life." Fragment of a poem now lost but discussed by Benedetto Varchi in his Lezzioni of 1547; translation by James Laslow

"To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie -- true poems flee." Emily Dickinson

"Well, then, shall mere glory distract you? Look at the swiftness of the oblivion of all men; the gulf of endless time, behind and before; the hollowness of applause, the fickleness and folly of those who seem to speak well of you, and the narrow room in which it is confined. This should make you pause. For the entire earth is a point in space, and how small a corner thereof is this your dwelling place, and how few and how paltry those who will sing your praises here ... The Universe is change, life is opinion." Marcus Aurelius

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all [those whom] I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors..." Jorge Luis Borges

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams

"Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later, the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned for being remarkably short and bad-tempered." Terry Pratchett

"One life: a little gleam of time between two eternities." Caryle

"The writer, making every effort to appear innocent and noble, takes his revenge with the pen, while the murderer, less hypocrtical, takes it with the sword." Christopher Spranger

"History repeats itself because no one listens the first time." From a Salada Orange Pekoe Tea Bag

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon

"O benefit of ill! Now I find true that better is by evil still made better; and ruin'd love, when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater." William Shakespeare

"If a man could pass through paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke -- Ay! -- and what then?" Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"After all, a short story can't do everything. If it can create one character or cast a strange new light on a single instant of experience, or conjure up an atmosphere, or distill an emotion, maybe that's all we can ask of it. A short story can't show us the whole house of life. All it can do is open a door and give us a glimpse of a corner of a room never seen before. But, the funny thing is, for every reader, its a corner of a different room. Stories aren't words fixed on a page; they change their form and color with different readers." Clifton Fadiman

"Every sweet with sour is tempered still." Edmund Spenser

"I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am." Sigmund Freud

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." Andy Rooney

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