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For whatever moral reasons he may do it, the artist who gives up an hours work for a friend knows he is sacrificing reality for something that is non-existant.

I sought my soul
But my soul I could not see
I sought my God
But my God eluded me
I sought my brother
And I found all three

Experience: The most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- C.S. Lewis

Sticks and stones can break bones. Words can shatter the soul. A little, quiet, picked on ten year old runs away because kids on the bus laugh at him. A sensitive ninth grader flips out because a group of self rising girls decide to throw her to the wolves. We tell ourselves it takes more than that to send someone over the edge. Maybe so, maybe not.

But there are no errasers.

If

If you can keep your head when all about
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
but make allowence for their doubting too;
if you can wait and not be tird of waiting.
or being lied about, don't deal in lise
or being hated, don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good, nor talk to wise.

If you can dream - and not make dreams our master
if you can think - and not make thought your aim,
if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and teat those two imposters just the same
if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
or watch the things you gave your life for, broken
and stoop and build 'em with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss
and lose and start back at your beggings
and not breath a word of your loss;
if you can forcer your heart, nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the Will wich says to them "Hold on!"

If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue
or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch
if neither foew nor loving friends can hurt you
if all men count with you, but none too much;
if you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds of long distance run
yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
and - what's more - you'll be a Man, my son!

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a computer

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and thing, "Well, that's not going to happen."

If you're palying a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

The lives of great men remind us
As their pages over we turn
That we're apt to leave behind us
Pages that we ought to burn

I've heard the expression, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you orriginal asked for.

No pessimist ever discoverd the secrets of the stars or sailed to an enchanted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

If you're gonna walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.