“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
- Charles Péguy
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June 11, 2009 at 7:58 pm
yes.
June 11, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Awesome quote!
June 11, 2009 at 11:21 pm
oo I like this
June 12, 2009 at 5:03 am
I’m trying to figure out which one I am. Maybe I find mine under the floor mat of my car. Or I pluck it from the neighbor’s garden. Evil laughter echoes…. .
June 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I’m with Christine, some of mine feel like they come from down the back of the sofa, others fall with rain.