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“Mr. Smith is a banker, Mrs. Christian is a nurse, as if those twenty or forty or sixty hours made the other hundred of each week nothing. How do you introduce yourself at parties, reader? Are you a cook? A hiker? A reader? A moviegoer?”

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Book:Too Like the Lightning

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“Even the most apparently autobiographical poem cannot help but deploy a persona that, while gesturing towards a flesh-and-bones speaker, remains, paradoxically, no more than a dramatised representation. The illusion of the presence of the poet within a poem is made possible by that poem’s conjuring of the illusion of the present moment. Poems may utilise language in such ways as to gesture towards an immediacy that, in turn, gives rise to the seeming presence of a very real speaker.”

Poetry Voice Dramatization

Book:Don Paterson

Source: Don Paterson

“With a definite purpose, plans of actions to fulfil purpose,high level of willingness to follow plans, and a never compromising nature. Living is at maximum. For this I have concluded that problem of an unconscious person is too fundamental and minute and so always ignored but its influence are great and life threatening.”

Inspirational Purpose Compromise Unconscious Willingness Plan Quit Fulfil

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“There are two types of person in the world. The first are those who create expectations and the second are those who have to fulfil the expectations.”

World Expectations Create First Types Fulfil

Book:Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“Arise, my heart, Let's bring back the fire within these ashes!”

Motivational Desire Arise

Book:Whispers Of Pain

Source: Whispers Of Pain

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