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Those compelled to mock the serious are perhaps not quite sure who will get the last laugh.




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You thought you were completely free of scorn until someone's shaft of ridicule pierced your poise.

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It's comfort- not conscience- that makes cowards of us all.


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The bland leading the bland...

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They support the "radical" poet who insults and bullies everyone - yet wonder why the President is a fascist.



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The verdict is in, the drums are rolling, the executioner is expected - tremble or live?

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Tell your troubles to a dark cloud you get rain.




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Cold latitudes proffer cold platitudes.

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The seductive informalities of contemporary life correspond to the ironic formalisms of contemporary art.


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Define me by how I think, describe me by what I know, know me by how I feel.

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Life's conspiracy- perhaps the shadow of desire- an irrepressible aura of incompletion.




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What you are thinking is the parrot in the cage of what you are doing.

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Treating others as equals demands considerable stamina. Most people prefer to worship and be worshipped- thus the predictable failure of democracies.



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No one would credit anyone for anything if not for the compulsive craving for hierarchy.

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Since insight requires independent thought applied to information, the average American, bloated with the fast food of facts, has grown more informed and more stupid at the same time.



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What you deem inconvenient may disguise your most formidable adversary.

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When a *raison d'etre* fades it is hard to recall why we did what we did. Remembering appears linked to what made something *apropos*


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Think or, better yet , daydream around, among, between- in the interstices-and not a moment will be wasted.

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For very long I have been alienated by the expectable. Now I am additionally alienated by the expectable alienation by the expectable.



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What did all that running ahead of myself accomplish other than declaiming emphatically: "Nothing can stop me!"

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Even more ghastly than hatred itself, indifferent eyes fly by coldly like headlights of cars on dark streets at night.



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Convictions contingent on praise fade with the earliest qualms.

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You complain about the chip on my shoulder- I worry about the ax in your hand.




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Wisdom isn't newsworthy - and the vampire media drink the blood of all hopes.

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Worries are daydreams without legs, or, worry is the caterpillar, daydream the butterfly.




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Joy is the giant, sadness the shadow

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Our daily Darwin: in order to sustain itself, happiness must remain oblivious to the unhappiness it creates in others




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Misery commiserates; the American "pursuit of happiness" decimates.

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Without daydreams between them, experiences themselves tend to become overly dreamlike- one displacing another suddenly and with too much logic -like sequences in a film, inexorable and coming to the point too soon.


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Ideas come together the way way a body makes itself comfortable. Somewhere, perhaps in the throat, a shoulder or an arm the thought resides. The thought is a link between fragments that might fit together-that want to be together- so they remain immobile until they unite and escape by means of the voice.

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If you are a male, the preponderance of other males will find a way to condescend to you, even with their
dying breath. A panhandler will tell you to "have a nice day" -as if it were theirs to give- or accept your donation with the indifference of a king.


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Intelligent response is to acclamation as love is to sex. As the latter grows ever more prevalent and public, the former grows ever more private and rare.

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A significant error provokes reflection; a major blunder demands change; an impossible dilemma reveals your soul.




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Yesterday was two days before tomorrow.

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Acceptance of uncertainty won't banish every qualm but unreasonable demands for certitude will make doubt a steady companion.



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Not all information is beneficial. Cultivating a taste for not knowing some things may make for a better day.

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Self-destruction may feel like rebellion in a society where weakness and doubt are increasingly looked upon as suspect behaviors.



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The more contemporary life demands acquiescence and assent, the harder, and more necessary it is to something, anything, solo.

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Again you were challenged by that callous friend- who always inquires how you are when you meet- but never seems to notice how you feel when you part.



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Solve global cooling global warming will follow.