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07/26/202522 Quintain (Sicilian)
07/23/202539 Rhyme
07/21/202524 Rhyme
07/20/202550 Lyric
07/19/2025107 Quintain (Sicilian)
07/17/202531 Couplet
07/16/202522 Sonnet
07/12/202563 Englyn
07/11/202550 Sonnet
06/22/202590 Limerick
06/20/202578 Limerick
06/16/202573 Limerick
06/15/202560 Lyric
06/13/2025179 Sonnet
06/11/2025199 Limerick
06/10/2025165 Limerick
06/08/2025193 Limerick
06/06/2025205 Limerick
05/30/2025260 Limerick
05/28/2025360 Limerick
05/26/2025241 Limerick
05/23/2025294 Sonnet
05/21/2025279 Limerick
05/19/2025318 Limerick
05/16/2025355 Limerick
05/09/2025367 Rhyme
05/09/2025357 Rhyme
05/09/2025368 Sonnet
05/09/2025383 Limerick
05/09/2025322 Limerick
05/02/2025295 Rhyme
05/02/2025296 Sonnet
05/02/2025341 Limerick
05/02/2025318 Limerick
05/02/2025310 Limerick
04/27/2025391 Limerick
04/25/2025432 Sonnet
04/25/2025305 Sonnet
04/25/2025366 Sonnet
04/25/2025381 Limerick
04/25/2025282 Limerick
04/20/2025248 Sonnet
04/20/2025316 Limerick
04/18/2025392 Sonnet
04/18/2025331 Limerick
04/11/2025334 Rhyme
04/11/2025424 Limerick
03/28/2025453 Limerick
03/28/2025343 Limerick
03/28/2025372 Limerick
03/23/2025456 Sonnet
03/22/2025394 Limerick
03/21/2025426 Sonnet
03/17/2025360 Rhyme
03/16/2025331 Rhyme
03/16/2025327 Limerick
03/16/2025410 Limerick
03/16/2025278 Limerick
03/14/2025484 Rhyme
03/14/2025334 Couplet
03/14/2025321 Couplet
03/14/2025791 Sonnet
03/14/2025495 Limerick
03/11/2025241 Rhyme
03/11/2025219 Couplet
03/11/2025221 Couplet
03/11/2025354 Sonnet
03/11/2025248 Limerick
03/10/2025131 Couplet
03/10/2025134 Couplet
03/10/2025154 Limerick
03/10/2025166 Limerick
03/10/2025178 Limerick
03/07/2025356 Rhyme
03/07/2025323 Rhyme
03/07/2025438 Acrostic
03/07/2025358 Limerick
03/07/2025404 Limerick
02/28/2025455 Rhyme
02/28/2025359 Rhyme
02/28/2025402 Limerick
02/28/2025427 Limerick
02/28/2025543 Limerick
02/21/2025298 Rhyme
02/21/2025250 Couplet
02/21/2025281 Limerick
02/21/2025318 Limerick
02/21/2025347 Limerick
02/14/2025301 Rhyme
02/14/2025285 Rhyme
02/14/2025296 Rhyme
02/14/2025375 Limerick
02/14/2025378 Limerick
02/07/2025305 Couplet
02/07/2025300 Rhyme
02/07/2025431 Limerick
02/07/2025444 Limerick
02/07/2025442 Limerick
02/02/2025520 Rhyme
02/02/2025351 Rhyme
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Quotes

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Quote Left Better too obsessive than not obsessive enough. Life deserves intensity, even if misplaced. Quote Right
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Quote Left Everything you need to know about life is somewhere in The Illiad. Quote Right
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Quote Left Reality is never a stranger. If you don't go looking for it, it will come looking for you. Quote Right
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Quote Left What seems odd from the outside usually seems inevitable from the inside. Quote Right
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Quote Left Different is better for someone. Quote Right
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Quote Left Literature is the art of lying in order to tell the truth. Quote Right
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Quote Left Meaning is the outside brought in. Quote Right
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Quote Left If you say, life is only for a moment, I respond, it is for a moment, rejecting 'only'. The moment matters. Quote Right
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Quote Left Mathematicians keep making the same mistake. Irrational numbers, negative numbers, imaginary numbers, undecidability: what is initially seen as an ugly contradiction is in fact an invitation to deepen our understanding of mathematics, and to see its beauty more fully. Undecidability is the discovery of truth oscillators. Quote Right
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Quote Left We know there is a divine realm because mathematics exists. And to those who would say mathematics is a human construction, I respond, you probably haven't done much math. Mathematics is consistently smarter than mathematicians, and its soul is deeper as well. Quote Right
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Quote Left If I can't take it with me, I'm not going. Quote Right
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Quote Left Interest gets interesting when the principal shows up. Quote Right
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Quote Left Love is like falling asleep: it only happens when you let go of yourself. And if it is worthwhile, it is generally true that love precedes the one loved. Quote Right
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Quote Left I don't care what people think unless they do. Quote Right
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Quote Left The basis of farce is undue seriousness. Quote Right
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Quote Left One of the few good things about getting older is that there are so many things not worth caring about that I don't care about anymore. A certain part of wisdom is indifference. Quote Right
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Quote Left The belief that one knows a lot is usually a sign of ignorance. Quote Right
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Quote Left The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is a statement about the Fourier transform, not about nature. The first falls where the second is not applicable. Quote Right
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Quote Left Forgetting is more sophisticated than remembering. Humans are the animals that mastered abstraction. Abstraction is forgetting what does not matter. Quote Right
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Quote Left I am well-traveled in my mind. Life is lived between the ears, the rest is stage setting. Quote Right
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Quote Left Although lost to history, one may imagine that the origin of the phrase 'to face the music' is that Scottish military formations placed their musicians in the rear. So soldiers had the choice of going forward into battle, or turning back and listening to the bagpipes. This accounts for their bravery. Quote Right
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Quote Left Most art is not as good as the artist. But great art is much better than the artist. Because great art is the expression of truth, for which the artist is only a messenger. Quote Right
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Quote Left Civilization is the process of creating new necessities. Quote Right
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Quote Left Good math is discovered. Bad math is invented. Quote Right
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Quote Left Engineers are like offensive linemen. When you hear their names called, it is generally bad news. Quote Right
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Quote Left Engineering is the art of systematically making things boring. When a bridge falls down, that's interesting. When it doesn't fall down, that's engineering. Quote Right
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Quote Left Regarding yoga, pretzels should be eaten, not imitated. Quote Right
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Quote Left I would say that I sing like a tone-deaf crow, were I not afraid that some crow would sue me for libel. Quote Right
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Quote Left When thinking is only worrying, don't think. Quote Right
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Quote Left Some people like to announce that they are twits. Ignore them. No one's opinion can bother you unless you respect it. Quote Right
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Short Stories

TitleCategories
Tale III: The Prose and Verse fantasy, funny, moral, science fiction,
Tale II: The Annoyed Muse fantasy, funny, love, moral,
Tale I: When Magic Blows in from the West fantasy, funny,

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