If there is light

it will find you

- Charles Bukowski

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The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful, it’s too late.

- Norm MacDonald

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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting

- Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

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We are all here for a moment in time. We are a blink. Well, what are you going to do with your blink? Is it going to be meaningful to you? What is your responsibility to the Earth, to humanity, to the people in your life you love? We all get to make those choices.

- Jennifer Lowe-Anker

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Now, why are you here? I'll tell you why you're here. You've been put here because the universe exists. There's no use the universe existing, if there isn't someone there to see it. Your job is to see it. Your job is to witness. To witness; to understand; to comprehend and to celebrate! To celebrate with your lives. At the end of your life, if you don't come to that end and look back and realize that you did not celebrate, then you wasted it.

- Ray Bradbury

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"Let everything happen to you

Beauty and terror

Just keep going

No feeling is final."

- Rainier Maria Rilke

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Don't try.

- Charles Bukowski

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The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

- John Muir

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.

When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

- Ansel Adams

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In the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but

uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. In this field, where

expertise invites doom, the notions of adolescence and maturity get

mixed up, and panic is the most frequent state of mind. So I would be

lying if I resorted to chronology or to anything that suggests a linear

process. A school is a factory is a poem is a prison is academia is

boredom, with flashes of panic.

— Joseph Brodsky

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"Maybe I've never photographed landscapes, I've only loved them.''

- Mario Giacomelli

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"It seems that almost anything man-made

that endures in time, acquires some qualities of

the natural. Bleak shapes grow into a kind of magic

that, once seen, cannot easily be ignored."

- Ansel Adams

 

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- XIII -

 

Is it true that voluptuous crocodiles

live only in Australia?

 

How do the oranges divide up

sunlight in the orange tree?

 

Did salt's teeth come

from a bitter mouth?

 

Is it true that a black condor

flies at night over my country?

 

- Pablo Neruda

The book of questions

 

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Always B Looking

 

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. . .and I am pleased to me mistaken

for a fog horn in the middle of the night.

- Charles Bukowski

 

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Spring

by

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

To what purpose, April, do you return again?

Beauty is not enough.

You can no longer quiet me with the redness

Of little leaves opening stickily.

I know what I know.

The sun is hot on my neck as I observe

The spikes of crocus.

The smell of the earth is good.

It is apparent that there is no death.

But what does that signify?

Not only under ground are the brains of men

Eaten by maggots.

Life in itself

Is nothing,

An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,

April

Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

 

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"A woman watering her lawn can be slightly sexy,

but a silver butane tank can change a man's life."

- John Divola

 

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I think over again my small adventures,

My fears,

Those small ones that seemed so big,

For all the vital things

I had to get and to reach;

And yet there is only one great thing,

The only thing,

To live to see the great day that dawns

And the light that fills the world.

- Anonymous (Inuit, 19th century)

 

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