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The War in Cartoons (Illustrated)

by George J. Hecht

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One Good Eye: A Jeep Mullane Novel (The Jeep Mullane Series, 2)

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Wizards for Hire - Cheap! - An Original Comics Story Collection: Featuring legendary wizards Bill and Butch. Stories include 'The Cowardly Clerics of ... Kill,' and 'The Planet With No Beer.' (1)

by Von Allan (Goodreads Author)

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“Immortality is not endless life. It is endless memory.”
― Dario Fero

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“Control is most effective
when it no longer feels like control.”
― Dario Fero

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“Time does not heal.
It rearranges what remains.”
― Dario Fero

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“Most Pagans are avid readers, yet many of them have had little formal education…They are, one priest observed to me…“scholars without degrees.”…as readers, they are an elite, since readers constitute less than twenty percent of the population in the United States.”
― Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

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“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II”
― Pope John Paul II

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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