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Quote~ Christopher Hitchens
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
— Christopher Hitchens
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Quote~David Attenborough
“I don’t know [why we’re here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
— David Attenborough
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Quote~ Ruth Hurmence Green
“I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won’t have to have faith in gods.”
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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Lyrical Quote-Blue October
“I thought of just your face
Relaxed, and floated into space”-Blue October, Into the Ocean
Lyrical Quote- Don McLean
“I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away…”Don McLean, American Pie
February 28, 2021 · 2:51 PM
Dylan Thomas, whoever he was…
Dylan Thomas Quotes:
On life, on writing, etc
“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”
“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”
“I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me.”
”When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
”Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.”
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
Poetry:
~”Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
~“And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
~“Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.”
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.”
~“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”
~“They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
~“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire
And cast a shadow crab upon the land,
By the sea’s side, hearing the noise of birds,
Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks,
My busy heart who shudders as she talks
Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.”
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death shall have no dominion”; the “play for voices” Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. Wikipedia
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I been Norman Mailer’d
Norman Mailer Quotes:
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“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
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“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
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“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away”
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“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, film-maker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer. Wikipedia
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