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I was born with eyes that can never close.


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I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies



My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.



If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.



A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.



Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.



There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.



Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.



Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.



But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.



There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.





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Live together as united people in a beautiful peaceful world.



Because there's beauty in the breakdown.

Because there's beauty in the breakdown.




There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.



No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.



Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.



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You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.



Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.



Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.




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