.Death focuses the mind on life. We are more likely to see the opportunities that come our way when we’re conscious of the limited time we have to take them.
I feel like an orphan, an outcast banished to a strange land, a prisoner on some foreign shore, sentenced to life without parole. I would gladly escape and return to my own people - if only I knew where they might be.
Carrion crows and junk-men if allowed to sue would probably have a good case for breach-of-natural-contract and incitement to public mischief,.
These are the seasons of this world: happy; sad; happy; sad; happy; sad - over and over again”.
“Alright! Let’s welcome back to the stage, Lonesome Dave & his Songs of the West, and don’t forget, from now ‘til closing, we’ve got half-price on peppermint-mocha café au Lait”.
Proof is only possible in math and science. Nothing in any other discipline equals that sort of verifiable truth. Certainties in social theory and historical record are really opinions. Even the most probable of them cannot be truly verified
He hit Dicky hard enough to stagger him backward with blood dripping from his chin. Dan said nothing. Dicky and Gerald never bothered Dan again. They never bothered the rest of us either. Whenever they tried, Dan would look up and walk toward them. They wanted no part in fights that left them bleeding.
“Think of your chicks”, Churr’s mother implored, “They’ll be neither Chickadee nor Sparrow, they’ll be outcasts”.
The method used to spin history in Nero’s time was the same as it is now: Tell the truth, but put the emphasis on the parts you want remembered; push the parts you don’t want remembered to marginal status.
Mutual interest in a finely turned sentence connects the lettered
to the lettered.
“We know more about the surface
of the moon than we do about
the bottom of the sea”.
Isn’t idyllic a pleasant word?
It sounds as calm and as pleasant
as the world it describes.
Despite fame and fortune, the little girl without parents, who lived her young life with whores, never went away. She stood next to Edith Gassion at every turn - Piaf or not.