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And wipe your fingerprints off the finish. So it looks like none of us ever existed and God Himself created this fence. That’s it exactly. That’s what we sell.
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“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let us in.”
― How Does a Poem Mean?
― How Does a Poem Mean?
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“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
― Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”
― How Does a Poem Mean?
― How Does a Poem Mean?
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A GoodReads group for CAPC members. And stuff.
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Students and staff at Waunakee High School meet once per month during lunch to talk about books.
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For anyone who adheres to our mantra: "Wear the old coat, buy the new book." (yes, we borrowed that from Austin Phelps.) ...more
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A group run by Waunakee Librarians to share book reviews and recommendations with our patrons and each other.
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Join the Persuasion podcast community in reading and discussing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Discussions are hosted on Persuasion episodes and social ...more
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