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Post by still.trucking » June 11th, 2009, 11:28 am

"If God surpasseth the human intellect, and cannot be compassed by intellectual forms—and this is at least a defensible position—it is not intellectually honest to stulify the intellect itself by forcing God into intellectual forms which should have a very definite intellectual meaning."

God and Golem Inc. Norbert Wiener
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Post by still.trucking » June 11th, 2009, 11:30 am

"In the words of the Calvinist, “Are you willing to be damned for the greater glory of God?”

God and Golem Inc. Norbert Wiener
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Post by still.trucking » June 23rd, 2009, 1:19 pm

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:"

The Book of Jackadiah, KJV
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Post by still.trucking » June 26th, 2009, 10:45 am

"Moving in both directions, the street is full of dresses which sway, offering themselves airily, the skirts lifting; dresses that liftand yet do not lift."

Colin Wilston, The Outsider
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Post by silent woman » June 26th, 2009, 1:11 pm

"Moving in both directions, the street is full of dresses which sway, offering themselves airily, the skirts lifting; dresses that lift and yet do not lift."

Colin Wilson, The Outsider
If you can't give me love and peace, Then give me bitter fame. — Akhmatova.

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Post by Doreen Peri » June 26th, 2009, 1:57 pm

i never did one of these... a cut-up using the quotes.... need to do it one day

it's on my list

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Post by still.trucking » June 27th, 2009, 8:38 am

"It is not a woman I want―it is all women and I seek for them in those around me, one by one...."

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Post by hester_prynne » July 20th, 2009, 11:53 pm

"Hester Prynne, therefor, did not flee"...
Nat Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter

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Post by hester_prynne » July 20th, 2009, 11:57 pm

"Do not let us be frightened from a good deed by a trifle"

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.
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Post by hester_prynne » July 21st, 2009, 12:00 am

" I call them the frequency holders. They are here to generate conciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others, as well as through, "just being", ".

The new earth, Eckhardt Tolle
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Post by stilltrucking » August 6th, 2009, 8:37 pm

"You get to know a man, and down deep there's something bothering him bad, and maybe you never find out what it is, but it's what makes him do like he does, it's what makes him look like he's got secrets in his eyes."

God Bless You Mr. Rosewater ---Kurt Vonnegut.

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Post by the mingo » August 12th, 2009, 1:34 am

Horses are at least handsome, you ever seen a handsome camel ?"

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Post by stilltrucking » August 12th, 2009, 2:18 am

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Post by mtmynd » August 12th, 2009, 4:01 pm

"We can go home laughing about all we endured, feeling good about ourselves, talking about the bus that didn't hit us instead of slinking out the door quietly, mulling over la puta vida, muttering half-formed recriminations."

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Post by still.trucking » August 12th, 2009, 7:00 pm

"When he fires for a moment nothing has happened, but there is blood between Joan's eyes, and then the apple falls and her body falls, upsetting the gin onto the grass."

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