WEATHERED

 

“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”

 

~ Michelle Cliff ~

 

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PLEIN LES YEUX

 

“Shut your eyes and see.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

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BEES KNEES

 

“Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”

 

~ William Golding ~

 

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THE PAINTER

 

“Painting is silent poetry.”

 

~ Plutarch ~

 

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L’AMOUR EST MORT

 

“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”

 

~ Charles Dickens ~

 

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TWO SIDES

 

“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”

 

~ Baron de Montesquieu ~

 

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ONLY LOSERS

 

“And in today already walks tomorrow.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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THE GRAVE

 

“I’d rather die while I’m living then live while I’m dead.”

 

~ Jimmy Buffet ~

 

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FOOTPRINTS

 

“I am frightened at seeing all the footprints

directed towards thy den, and none returning.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

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THE NIRVANA OF DIZZY

 

“I was poised on its dizzy summit.”

 

~ Marcel Proust ~

 

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THE PERFECT CRIME

 

“The heart was made to be broken.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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SUSPICIOUSLY SPREAD-EAGLED

 

“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice,

“but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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DEATH IS FOREVER

 

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

 

~ Hector Berlioz ~

 

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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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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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CHANGES

 

“Well, my mind is going through them changes…”

 

~ Buddy Miles ~

 

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CUPPA JAVA

 

“To do good work one must eat well, be well housed,

have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe,

and drink one’s coffee in peace.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

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BATS

 

“The colour of my soul is iron-grey

and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

 

~ Claude Debussy ~

 

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COBWEBS

 

“Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind…”

 

~ Graham Nash ~

 

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