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“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England”
― C.G. Jung

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. ”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“dust on cities can be shaken for dreams”
― Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, Yawning On The Sands

“there is a middle realm which is almost as thick as the whole is.  or hole as the case may seem as we spiral up through its icy chasm built from ancestral ideas on life.”
― Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, Enter the After-Garde Selections from 1998-2010

“the sea can be               the palimpsest               for all words   and also tune to set               them to   and as such this song rises               for another voice”
― Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, Yawning On The Sands

“ReVision   The failure I saw myself grew darker and darker as the halfway halves halfway blended   And somewhere there exists a world so removed from this   In moonlight’s beam with warriors in gloaming dreaming of being right back here at home   Where the snow draped trees beat loneliness and beauty into being   And the mirror wipes it all away as a glance becomes a stare   And all but a few places unwrinkled and creased remain of what used to be.”
― Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, Enter the After-Garde Selections from 1998-2010

“Well, when it comes down to it, even the mystics want to touch the moon and the physicists can’t explain the elliptical orbits away.”
― Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, Enter the After-Garde Selections from 1998-2010

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange