“To the As-Yet-Unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life".

“To the As-Yet-Unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light an

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THE CREATION by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

"AND God stepped out on space,
And He looked around and said,
"I'm lonely --
I'll make me a world."

 

And far as the eye of God could see
Darkness covered everything,
Blacker than a hundred midnights
Down in a cypress swamp..."

~~ THE CREATION by: Jam

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Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be. I'm not happy when I try to fake it"

Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be. I'm not happy when I try to fake it"

"Easy" by Lionel Ritchie

Everyone is unique and subject to transformation, trial and risk taking. Many times when people make changes that others can't understand, t

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Memorable first lines

It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

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"We were the best of friends..."

The first line is from Diana Ross' song, "No One Gets The Prize." This first liner does affect me as I have seen friendships ruined over fighting over a man. My ex-husband and a very young friend flirted at a holiday dinner in 2004. Our marriage was

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DYLAN THOMAS: When Like A Running Grave

"When, like a running grave, time tracks you down,.." Dylan Thomas - When Like A Running Grave - from the Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas.

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Thomas Hardy, Far From The Maddening Crowd

"When Farmer Oak smiles, his eyes were reduced to kinks and diverging wrinkles appear around them like the rudimentary sketch of the rising sun," Thomas Hardy, Far From The Maddening Crowd.

 

So vivid. I can see farmer Oak and I get to be intimately

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