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“We will not be saved by poetry. But poetry is the type of creation in which we may live which will save us.”
–Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry

“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.”
–Emily Dickinson

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
–Oscar Wilde

“The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
–Milan Kundera

“When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grownups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.”
— Madeleine L’Engle

“The world only exists in your eyes… You can make it as big or as small as you want.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.” —
Nikki Giovanni

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” —
Rita Mae Brown

“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.”
–Fay Weldon

“…in that time [I’m not writing], I’m reading and listening and witnessing everything around me. Some will mistake these periods of stillness as writer’s block, but I’m quite literally gathering in that time.”
–Rachel McKibbens, poet, activist, playwright

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
— Joseph Heller

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.”
— Octavia Butler

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
— Junot Diaz

“Resist much, obey little.”
–Walt Whitman

“No need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life. That’s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself whereas life alone is enough.”
–Samuel Beckett

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Burt Bacharach

Russell Banks

Phyllida Barlow

Bobby Beathard

Jeff Beck

Harry Belafonte

Richard Belzer

Jeff Blackburn

David Bottoms

Craig Breedlove

Victor Brox

Bob Brunning

Cleve Bryant

Donn Cambern

David Crosby

C. Michael Curtis

Richard H. W. Dillard

Melinda Dillon

Norman Dubie

Royston Ellis

Ian Falconer

Christopher Fowler

Carin Goldberg

Bud Grant

Roland Griffiths

Dick Groat

Dick Haley

David Harris

Kevin Higgins

Gregory Allen Howard

Hugh Hudson

Al Jaffee

Ahmad Jamal

Kidd Jordan

Lance Kerwin

Maria Kodama

Ed Koren

Paul La Farge

Michael Lerner

Alfred Leslie

David Lindley

Gina Lollobrigida

Robin Lumley

Tim McCarver

Art McNally

Murray Melvin

Victor Navasky

Kenzaburō Ōe

Gary Oelze

Bobby Orr

Linda Pastan

Edith Pearlman

Rachel Pollack

Lisa Marie Presley

Mary Quant

Jonathan Raban

Lance Reddick

Willis Reed

Keith Reid

Mark Russell

Jerry Samuels

Pat Schroeder

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Arnold Schulman

Wayne Shorter

Ray Shulman

Charles Simic

Mark Spitzer

April Stevens

Stella Stevens

Sylvia Syms

Otis Taylor

Top Topham

Chaim Topol

Vivian Trimble

Tom Verlaine

Raquel Welch

Fay Weldon

Cindy Williams

Bill Wright

Gail Zappa

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Art

Audio

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last words

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Gargoyle Online

# 5

Table of Contents

fiction

Poetry

nonFiction

Art

Audio

Video

Special Thanks

last words

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