Immortality You carried your vengeance beyond decease – Slowed down the pyre’s cleansing, Slowed down the soil’s, the water’s warmth, Left total body change open to the senses – Pursued your cause beyond its effects, Stepped out beyond all examples, Further than all reflections, Forestalled all worth – All kindred, all common links – Seeking to frame a cleansing, […]
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An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble I found in Carrara and shipped to New York on the deck of a trawler. I offered the marble to a famous sculptor who told me he works in granite only so I grabbed his beret and one of his smocks […]
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“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
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“Sadly, talent and character do not often reside in the same person.” – Lorne Michaels
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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way, an artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” – Charles Bukowski
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“I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.” – Edith Konecky
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“Explanations are excuses and excuses are lies.”
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