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Aphorisms

A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but what keeps it there? In geological time, mankind is but the grit under God’s fingernails. Is it a wonder that we love the grit less than He? A car … Continue reading

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Aphorisms

Wherever you go, there you are. Again. And again. And again. Whatever does not kill me, probably pretty fucking well beats me up. Would that a loss of faith was not accompanied by an increasing difficulty in keeping the faith. … Continue reading

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Aphorisms

Writing is an activity whose principal purpose is to demonstrate to yourself and others how fuzzy your thinking is. Out of the mouths of babes comes generally spittle and half-masticated carrots. A bird in the hand is a pretty messy … Continue reading

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Aphorisms

The insufferable suffer themselves all too gladly. Shingles and post-polio syndrome: just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Teenage girls and bond traders: poster children for Twitter, microblogging, and ADD?

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