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" Humor is not a trick, not jokes.

Humor is a presence in the world

- like grace -

and shines on everybody."

~

Garrison Keillor

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"Great art can communicate

before it is understood"

~

T.S.Elliot

~ South Island, New Zealand '03

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"Man cannot discover new oceans

until he has courage to lose sight

of the shore."

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"The only people for me are the mad ones,

the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,

mad to be saved....the ones who never

yawn or say a commonplace thing,

but burn, burn, burn,

like fabulous yellow roman candles

exploding like spiders across the stars."

~

Jack Kerouac

ON THE ROAD

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"The earth's distances invite the eye.

And as the eye reaches, so must the mind

stretch to meet these new horizons.

I challenge anyone to stand with autumn

on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse,

not only around him,

but in him, too."

~

Hal Borland

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"For me there is only the travelling

on paths that have heart,

on any path that may have heart.

There I travel, and the only worthwhile

challenge is to traverse its full length.

And there I travel, looking, looking,

b r e a t h l e s s l y."

~

Carlos Castenada

'The Teachings of Don Juan'

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"Only the man who can relax is able to create,

and ideas reach his mind like lightning."

~

Cicero

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"Man is harder than iron,

stronger than stone,

and more fragile

than a rose."

~

Turkish proverb