The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity — Yeats
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike a painting or a piece of music a garden is never fixed in time.
― Rosalie Parker - In The Garden
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
― William Saroyan
Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.
— Piet Hein - Grooks
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I exist. That's about as much as I can say for certain, right now.
You still around old friend?
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I'd unpublished it a while back, because it felt a bit of out of place. At the time it seemed to still work as a direct link, but I guess something has changed in the meantime. I'll put it back up again.
Just wondering what happened to the part 4 of 6 to Xenophoolia? The links go to The Xenophile's Guide to Equestria, but the chapter isn't there anymore.
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If they could, they would. Seriously mate, donkeys do not give a fuck
YOU EXIST AND THEY TAKE OFFENSE AT THAT!