even slower

 

“When we remember we are all mad,

the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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dark corners

 

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept

the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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pills

 

“White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill;

its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.”

 

~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes ~

 

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my turn to be forgotten

 

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

 

~ Joni Mitchell ~

 

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golden fleece

 

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

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overkill

 

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

 

~ Albert Collins ~

 

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two fragments

 

“Of the seven deadly sins,

lust is definitely the pick of the litter.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

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a numbness

 

“How nice – to feel nothing,

and still get full credit for being alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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the day after

 

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

 

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

 

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tiptoe away

 

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

 

~ Cyril Connolly ~

 

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trick of the tongue

 

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”

 

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

 

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saxophones

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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dreambo

 

“A memory is what is left when something happens

and does not completely unhappen.”

 

~ Edward de Bono ~

 

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a life within a life

 

“How can you be in two places at once

when you’re not anywhere at all.”

 

~ Firesign Theater ~

 

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bandora’s pox

 

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster…what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

 

~ Blaise Pascal ~

 

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darkness

 

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,

and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

 

~ Helen Keller ~

 

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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

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carrots and cake

 

“Life, people learned, was not easy.

Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.”

 

~ Tao Lin ~

 

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