How peculiar (Percy)
What the novelist notices is not how awful the happenings are but how peculiar it is that people don't seem to notice how awful the happenings are.
Walker Percy, Signposts In A Strange Land
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What the novelist notices is not how awful the happenings are but how peculiar it is that people don't seem to notice how awful the happenings are.
Walker Percy, Signposts In A Strange Land
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What I like best about poetry is the precision. The rest of life tells you there's no such thing as perfection. Poetry says there's no such thing as almost right.
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The purpose of life, or at least what makes it bearable, is to discover sources of satisfaction from which you can construct at least an intermittent contentment.
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It was always a strange thing, coming home. Coming home meant that you had, at one point, left it and, in doing so, irreversibly changed. How odd, then, to be able to return to a place that would always be anchored in your notion of the past. How could this place still be there, if the you that once lived there no longer existed?
Becky Chambers, A Prayer For The Crown-Shy
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Freedom and prosperity are not inherently linked, but we should endeavor at all times to pair them.
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The compulsive nature of superstition should make it immediately suspect.
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My newest book of poetry, The Calendar of Heresies, is now out! Had fun making the cover of this one using Midjourney. Those wishing to purchase a copy may do so at Amazon.
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