You have to question your originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song.

Jonathan Tropper
The Book of Joe (2004) 82

in longing you close your eyes,
but in wonder you open them.

Myra Shapiro
The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) 151

The mystery of water cannot even be understood by canoe.

Teri Zipf
"Against the Lake"

Listen. But not too carefully, since what I’m saying is not exactly what I mean.

James Richardson
Vectors (2001) #465

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings.

Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird (1994) 113

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

mr. whittier
from chuck palahniuk’s ‘haunted’

Do you believe in love at first site,
or do I have to walk by you again?

anonymous

Most people don’t know what they are doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

George Carlin
Napalm and Silly Putty (2001) 117

Most of what we feel we’ve lost, we’ve never had.

Richard Flint
Life is a Maze (1986)

People ask if machines can have souls. And I ask back whether souls can learn.

Marvin Minsky
The Society of Mind (1986) 4.3

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