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After I returned to my country after the war, I found I had to re-learn the language, because there were new words, or words took on new meaning, because of the war, and as I was in exile during the war, I hadn't learned them, or their new meaning. - Quote approximated from Aleksandar Hemon

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Ambitious humans took on the challenge of seeking water on other planets, given that water is the precondition of life. However, contemplating water is also to slip away, dissolve, & die. Could it be that deep within the core of our desire for extraterrestrial communication hides an obscure urge to seek new ways of dying? - Damon Bonari

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It’s impossible to have access to everything, a narrator may actually exist to throw us off, and there’s always something we can’t see. - Emilio Fraia

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Ritual

The ritual involves using a fire to burn, but it doesn't say what the fire should be made of, maybe this is why every ritual we have tried has failed.

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I took swigs of wine straight from the bottle, to relax but also to render the evening more profane. - Joshua Roebke

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Self-nailed martyrs make a dangerous crowd. - Joseph Byrd

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Is the new form of luxury travel that of weightlessness, rotating hallways, & suspension in outer space? The hotel has long been a place of forbidden pleasure-principles, with decadent lobbies & back-rooms, but this threatens to bring desire into alien orbits of possibility. - Jason Mohaghegh

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We were like two lost matching suitcases, on a carousel going nowhere.

Nick Cave

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North Kanst

He went South of North Kanst.

But, that's the lake.

Correct.

Did he go by boat?

No, he swam.

Did he reach the other shore?

We'll find out after the Spring Melt.

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Agnostic and uninsured, I eat celery, onions, and garlic—my Holy Trinity of survival.

Henri Cole

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Dust

Money gathers money, diamonds gather dust.

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A great jazz musician needs a group, a trio, a partner instrument to maintain the ghost of the pulse against which the idiosyncratic improvisations can occur. It is the counterpoint we respond to. - Ellen Bryant Voigt

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My memory keeps getting in the way of your history. - Agha Shahid Ali

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You can only play what you can hear. You can only survive the music, the tone, that you can hear. The frequencies you don’t hear exist without you knowing it, prey on your obliviousness to them, and can undermine anyone who would pretend otherwise try and fake that access. - Harmony Holiday

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Humans are communal by nature, and we crave participation, even in irrational or supernatural things. - Amanda Montell

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Alexa

Into the robots he'd programmed instructions for when someone, one day, would say, "Alexa, destroy the world." For he knew, if someone one day said it, society was not worth saving.

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