Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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