Category: Quotes

October 9, 2014

Quote – Cape Doesn’t Make A Hero

“I may wear a cape, but that doesn’t make me a hero.” – Steve Vernon – The Glint of Moonlight on Broken Glass in Nothing to Lose (Nocturne Press, 2007)

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August 28, 2014

Quote – Walking Through Fear Makes You Stronger

“Walking through your fear makes you stronger. It makes you able to walk through other fears. It gives you courage. It gives you faith that there are bigger powers in the world than you fear. When you walk through fear, you… become a bigger power than the fear. It is its own medicine in the end.” -Richard Wagamese – Him...

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August 26, 2014

Quote – Measuring Value by Who Has Been Loved

“”These days, I can quantify my remaining decades. I can measure them out in life-events. I can gauge my value as a man by who I’ve loved, who has loved me, and by the ones I didn’t love nearly enough.” -Michael Rowe, “Ghosts” (Postscripts to Darkness, http://pstdarkness.com/2014/08/08/ghosts-by-michael-rowe/ )  

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August 22, 2014

Quote – Considering Ourselves Greater than Nature

“That they should envision themselves greater than nature, that they believe they can control eventualities with their industries both amazes and amuses you, the latter in a grim way. You survey the skyline of London, blotted with inky smoke from their factories, fumes that choke the air, and you wonder: are they insane? They cannot breathe. They die of illnesses...

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July 31, 2014

Quote – Hatred Ends by Letting Go.

“Dear One, beware the poison of hatred. Hatred ends not by hatred. Dear One, beware for hatred ends only by letting it go.” -Graeme MacQueen – “Fate and Fortune” in The Monkey King & Other Stories Edited by Griffin Ondaatje (Harper Collins, 1995)

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July 3, 2014

Quote – Dead Carrying Us On Their Backs

“And we, the dead, bear them on our backs, as we have done a million times. They play on our green grass while the sun slants indulgently over their tousled boy heads.” -Kate Heartfield, The Dead So Near, Lackington’s Issue 1 (http://lackingtons.com/2014/02/13/their-dead-so-near-by-kate-heartfield/)

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June 18, 2014

Quote – Dionysus Drama King

“Dionysus could be a bit of a drama king. Seeing how he was the god of theatre, I suppose it made sense.” – Karen Dudley, Food for the Gods

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June 11, 2014

Quote – Shrinking Envelope of Normal

“Each of us has felt alone, mechanized and constricted by – or forcibly expelled from – the shrinking envelope of normal, the hegemony of real.” -Greg Bechtel – “Junk Mail” in Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014)

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June 3, 2014

Quote – Inhabiting Other People’s Lives

“As a writer, I spend hours alone with the blinds drawn against the sun, inhabiting other people’s lives. Any reader who has ever lost themselves in a well-written tale of terror on a stormy night will understand what I mean when i say that I sometimes wonder if we don’t bring the stories back into the world with us by...

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June 1, 2014

Quote – Choice To Do Something About It

“The only choices we have… are to participate in the destruction or do something about it.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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