There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky is sensed, is seen, although in such settings the sky itself is invariably immense. There is a place between the cerebrum and the stars where sky stops and space commences, and should we find ourselves on a particular prairie or mountaintop at a particular hour, our relationship with sky thins and loosens while our connection to space becomes solid as bone.


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Beware the man who considers kissing as nothing more than duty, a sop to the "weaker" sex, an annoyi...
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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
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Whining's unattractive, even when your whine sounds like Kenneth Branagh eating frozen strawberries ...
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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressin...
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Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential...
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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign...
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I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
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Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each othe...
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There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding...
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will ...
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It's been a positive thing for us. I think it's excellent.
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What is it that separates human beings from the so-called lower animals? Well, as I see it, its exac...
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Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon lear...
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We had a lot of young players this season. I thought they have improved over the course of the year....
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There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the...
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That's for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ...
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Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B...
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Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants.
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ...
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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results...
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To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys...
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
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The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
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Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
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Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
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There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
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Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
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If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
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Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
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But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
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Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
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At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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