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Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards ...more

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Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been spending the last six ...more

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The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever re...more

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I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

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I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.

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But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't...more

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I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has ...more

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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

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So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read in school because it is irr...more

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They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid...more

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Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not eva...more

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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.