BAIT GOATThere is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank. Kay Ryan
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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Criss Jami
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.
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Helen Exley
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
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Jonathan Safran Foer
According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made...
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Haruki Murakami
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Cesare Pavese
More Quotes By Kay Ryan
It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.
Failure: the renewable resource.
Action creates/a taste/for itself.
Not even waste/is inviolate./ The day misspent, /the love misplaced, /has inside it/the seed of redemption./ Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
Gaps don't/just happen./ There is a/generative element/inside them, /a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./ And where gaps/choose to widen, /coordinates warp, /even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.
