I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had just poured me another drink, and I was having one of those rare moments any serious drunk can tell you about. A piece of real quiet. Jose's cheeks bristled because he didn't shave very often, and his apron was dingy because it didn't get washed very often, and his fingernails had little crescents of grime under them. The glass he poured for me wasn't all that clean. But the stuff he poured was golden-amber and beautiful, like distilled sunlight, and it made the whole place soothing as sleep–which drunks know how to value because they don't get much of it. Stephen R. Donaldson
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Liam McCurry
My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my disguise. In the play, my role is baticeer; a word...
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Lemony Snicket
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look! " and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
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Mary Oliver
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
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Anonymous
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Be true, unbeliever.
Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.
It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.
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