TWENTY FOUR SEVEN

 

“The average Smartphone user checks

his or her device every six and a half minutes.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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THE PROMISE OF A BLOSSOM

 

“A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling.

Beneath the surface, lies terror.”

 

~ Thomas Pynchon ~

 

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PIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION

 

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

 

~ Marianne Moore ~

 

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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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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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TITBIDS

 

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

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TOKEN

 

“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books…”

 

~ Mary Augusta Ward ~

 

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UP TO OUR ASHES

 

“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

 

~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ~

 

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READ THEM THEIR RIGHTS

 

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

 

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~

 

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THE PRICE PAID

 

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

 

~ Cesare Pavese ~

 

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A NEW ABNORMAL

 

“The abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”

 

~ H.P. Lovecraft ~

 

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HILDA AND HUBERT

 

“If you’re going to do something tonight that

you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”

 

~ Henny Youngman ~

 

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HALCYON

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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SHARDS OF LIGHT

 

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

 

~ Leonard Cohen ~

 

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STARSLEEP

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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ABSINTHE

 

“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”

 

~ Ethel Mumford ~

 

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SHADOWMAN

 

“A circle is the reflection of eternity.

It has no beginning and it has no end.”

 

~ Maynard James Keenan ~

 

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EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT BLOSSOM

 

“Lust will curdle like milk if you don’t keep using it up.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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