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“As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.”

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Ronnie Shakes

Ronnie Shakes, a mysterious artist whose life and works remain controversial. His artistic career began in the 1970s, and his unique style and techniques sparked widespread attention in the art world. more

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.”

Men Two Feelings Past Remember Hours Powerful Blood Strange Fallen Links Uniforms Gob

Author:William Manchester

“The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.”

Plant Dry Flexible

Author:Laozi

“A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.”

Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

“Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.”

Should Wells Together Spirit Air Danger Gay Pure Sarcasm Tall Aphorism Lofty

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

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