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  • #1
    “...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: inner-life, self, self-awareness, the-heart, the-soul, the-spirit, writing
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    “...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: black, darkness, the-heart, writer
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  • #3
    “...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: imagery, images, skull, thoughts, writing
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  • #4
    “...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: darkens, flowers, god, spiritual, worlds
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  • #5
    “... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: destiny, fate, god, plan, purpose
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  • #6
    “...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: endings, life, plot, purpose
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  • #7
    “...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: life, map, meaning, purpose, soul
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  • #8
    “...don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: death, life, purpose, unknown, way
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  • #9
    “...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: authentic, broken, honest, perfection, real
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  • #10
    “...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: characters, novels, plot, writing
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  • #11
    “...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: control, fiction, reality, retreat, sense, writing
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  • #12
    “...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: allegory, happiness, story, tolstoy
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  • #13
    “...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: beautiful, cigarette, shaft, smoke, sunlight
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  • #14
    “...did you know that in your eyes there are bright flecks of green and orange - and that they are lovely?...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: colors, eyes, flecks, green, lovely, orange
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  • #15
    “...skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: headlight, mist, night, silk, skeins, tunnels
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  • #16
    “...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: age, bruise, hands, shiny, skin, transparent
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  • #17
    “...a little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what do you have? postmodern soup...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: coptwrite, plagiarism, postmodern
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  • #18
    “...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: age, face, lines, softens, summer, winter
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  • #19
    “...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: gentle, kind, mind, peace, pray, rest, winter
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  • #20
    “December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: breath, cloud, december, frost, memory, summer, winter
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  • #21
    “...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: break, guard, protect, self-protection, struggle
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  • #22
    “...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: beautiful, gentleness, love, snow, softness
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  • #23
    “...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: life, love, poetry-quotes, you
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  • #24
    “...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: calm, fears, love, soul, soulmates, tears
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  • #25
    “...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: beauty, love, nature, poetry-quotes
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  • #26
    “...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: gestures, love-quotes, poetry-quotes, thoughts-of-you
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  • #27
    “...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: cat, dawn, nature, poetry, sleep, the-world
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  • #28
    “...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: mist, morning, poetry-quotes, slumber
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  • #29
    “...at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: cat, grandfather-clock, morning, muse, poetry-quotes
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  • #30
    “...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: barn-light, field, loneliness, nature, poetry-quotes, twilight
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