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“...science and violence turned silence to rage.”

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Emily Saliers, born on July 22, 1963, is a talented American singer-songwriter. Known for her unique voice and profound lyrics, she is one of the founding members of the folk rock band The Indigo Girls. Saliers' musical career began in the 1980s, and her work covers a wide range of themes, including love, social justice, and environmental protection. more

“Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!”

Said Action Higher Harder Rounds Circles Leap Full Circle

Author:Amy Ray

“You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.”

Way Heart May Song Turns Silence Taste Spring Sentences Tongue

Author:Emily Saliers

“Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.”

Wells Hatred Insecurity Rooted Paranoia

Author:Amy Ray

“There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.”

Kindness Duty

Book:Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

“God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'”

Knows Looks Records Silly Checks Odd Guidance Counselor Guidance Counselor Silly Me

Author:Dar Williams

“I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.”

Way Feelings Interesting

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Simple Cities Add Complicated Complication

Author:Carol Anshaw

“It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.”

Stories Easy Lines Harder Plot Plot Lines

Book:Aquamarine

Source: Aquamarine

“Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?”

Trying Years Moments Seems Memories Tiny Fragments Memory Of Someone

Author:Carol Anshaw

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