A DISTANT WINDOW

 

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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THE SUMMER OF DISCONTENT

 

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out

than it would have been if it had never shone.”

 

~ John Steinbeck ~

 

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WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT

 

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

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MUSICA UNIVERSALIS

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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JUNGLE

 

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

 

~ Peter De Vries ~

 

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MY WOODEN FACE

 

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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NO ROOM FOR RAINBOWS

 

“The color of truth is gray.”

 

~ Andre Gide ~

 

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A DIME A DOZEN

 

 

“…i have been dealing with these kinds

  of conversations for decades,

 only the names of the instruments

   have been changed to protect the innocent…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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THE WAITING GAME

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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LATE BLOOMER

 

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

 

~ Theodore Roethke ~

 

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OPIATE

 

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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FLESH AND BONE

 

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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ONCE BROKEN

 

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

 

~ Madame de Stael ~

 

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HIGH COO

 

“…words are like soft clay,

malleable in one’s hands,

molded in the mind…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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CORNU COPIAE

 

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

 

~ George Orwell ~

 

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LEMMINGS

 

“Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

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WASTED OPPORTUNITY

 

“…people choose to live in darkness, praying for a candle,

when all they really have to do is open their eyes…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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LA VIE EST CHANGEMENT

 

“Life is change.”

 

~ Heraclitus of Ephesus ~

 

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TETHYS

 

“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,

involves the whole human race.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

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ILLUSION

 

“…and romeo was left crooning to an empty balcony…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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