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“I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver

“What comes, is called.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver

“How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.”
― Ki Longfellow

“Shut up,' he explained.”
― Ring Lardner

“How can you write if you can't cry?”
― Ring Lardner

“Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.”
― Ring Lardner

“Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”
― Ring Lardner

“life is one damned kitten after another”
― Don Marquis, The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
― Oliver Sacks