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Marcus J. Borg
“the Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.”
Marcus J. Borg, Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most

Robert M. Pirsig
“When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Charles Bukowski
“A crane can't buy a piece of ass

Or

hang itself at noon
in Monterey
Those are some of
the things

Humans can do
Besides
stand on one leg”
Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

Ogden Nash
“Excerpted from A PLEA FOR A LEAGUE OF SLEEP

... My life with joy is sometimes fraught,
But mostly when I'm doing naught.
Yea, I could spend my whole career
A pillow underneath my ear.
How wise was he who wittily said
That there is nothing like a bed.
A mattress is what I like to creep on;
The right side is the one I sleep on.

...Stalin and Hitler while they sleep
Are harmless as a baby sheep;
Tyrants who cause the earth to quake
Are only dangerous when awake.
This world would be a happier place,
And happier the human race,
And all our pilots be less Pontius,
If people spent more time unconscious.”
Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

William Carlos Williams
“The Library is desolation, it has a smell of its own of stagnation and death.”
William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book 3

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