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Alarms and Discursions

by G.K. Chesterton

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Jun 27, 2019 11:10AM

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God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet

by Nathan Schneider (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 27, 2014 08:10PM

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Collected Poems, 1948-1984

by Derek Walcott

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Jan 27, 2014 08:07PM

Barbara’s Quotes

“How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

tags: lord-peter-wimsey, love, poetry

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“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

tags: creative-process, expectations, honesty, integrity, on-writing, pandering, self-expression, selling-out, writing

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“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.”
― C.S. Lewis, Studies in Words

tags: emotion, poetry

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“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-welfare, animals

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“The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night