Poetry & Prose

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Word. 

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John Keats always knew how to soothe the soul.

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“Life is to be felt, not figured out.” 

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Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh the same desire and mystery, the echo of the whole sea's speech. And all mankind is thus at heart not anything but what thou art: And Earth, Sea, Man, are all in each.

The Sea-Limits, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

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Shining Light, Don Paterson. 

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Every man needs a pocket Everyman. 

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Some celebrate World Food Day by consuming tantalising treats, we opted for Shakespare. 

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

George R.R. Martin 

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"I have been drunk for about a week now and I thought it might sober me up if I sat in a library.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 

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In tribute to National Feral Cat day, the most feral cat I could think of: Behemoth from The Master and Margarita. He also drinks, so that takes care of National Liqueur Day (at least a little).

Source: https://uk.pinterest.com/jaroslawglowa/master-and-margarita/

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Proverbs for Paranoids, 5: Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

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Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

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Maggie Smith, US based poet and writer. 

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Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, They seek.

Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

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When judging a book by its cover starts you on a fantastic trilogy...The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters. 

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“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.” John Clare

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The churches are empty, and the monarchy shipwrecked itself on its own vanity. Politics is a racket, and democracy is just another utility, like gas and electricity. Almost no one has any civic feeling. Consumerism is the one thing that gives us our sense of values. Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode. The great dream of the Enlightenment, that reason and rational self-interest would one day triumph, led directly to today's consumerism.

Kingdom Come, J.G.Ballard