In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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