If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illuminate you in God.
St. Isaac - 7th Century Hermit Monk
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
-Florence Scovel Shinn, writer, artist and teacher (1871-1940)
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of that question.
Tennessee Williams
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On January 4, 1965, the American-born English poet T. S. Eliot died in London. One of the greatest poets of all time, he was also a respected playwright, an influential literary critic, a gifted essayist, and a talented editor. A leader of the modernist movement in poetry, his works revitalized English poetry and helped him win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. He penned many great oxymoronic quotes:
"Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison." "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." (on television)
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