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Jack Kerouac

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money.

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

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Shel Silverstein

Once I spoke the language of the flowers

Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed.

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William Hazlitt

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

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Toni Morrison

since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

There is really nothing more to say — except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

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William Faulkner

Man knows so little about his fellows.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.