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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. – D.H. Lawrence, “Peace and War,” Pansies, 1929

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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954

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Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. – D.M. Thomas

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I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die. – William Wiley

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He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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