"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

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"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."

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Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

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Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

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"The groves were God's first temples."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

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Larry Hagman, American Actor

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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

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"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."

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"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."

"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

"My name is Linus, and I am your God."

"The groves were God's first temples."

"But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god."

"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

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"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."

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