"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"We travel, some of us to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

"I must be a mermaid… I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

"You cannot save people, you can only love them."

So I don’t flood your dashboard too much

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” - Max Eastman

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein

“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.” - Max Eastman

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” - Flannery O’Connor

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to nourish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” - Anais Nin

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” - e. e. cummings

“The smallest sprouts show there is really no death,” -Walt Whitman

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Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out

The “Miranda Rights,” established 1966

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You have the right to remain

anything you can and will be

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An attorney you cannot afford

will be provided to you.

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You have silent will.

You can be against law.

You cannot afford one.

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You remain silent. Anything you say

will be provided to you.

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The right can and will be

against you. The right provided you.

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Have anything you say be

right. Anything you say can be right.

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Say you have the right attorney.

The right remains silent.

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Be held. Court the one. Be provided.

You cannot be you.

-Charles Jensen