John Geddes Quotes - Page 2

... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...
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...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?
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...did you know that in your eyes there are bright flecks of green and orange - and that they are lovely?...
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...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...
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...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...
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...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching...
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...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...
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...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...
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...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
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...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...
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...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...
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... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...
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...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...
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...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...
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your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky
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...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...
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...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...
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Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you
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I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift
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...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...
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...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...
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...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
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...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...
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...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...
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...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...
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...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...
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...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...
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...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls....
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...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...
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we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves
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...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...
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...true love is my religion...
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You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist
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yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams
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...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...
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....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...
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...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...
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...you ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled...
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...I can’t grasp the stars, but I love them – in the same way, I love you...
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...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...
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I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...
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the fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out—a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights
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...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
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...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....
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...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...
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...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...
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...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...
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...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...
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...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...
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Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...
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...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...
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you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer
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you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes
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...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...
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...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...
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...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...
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...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...
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...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...
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...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...
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...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...
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