#truth

"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]"

"Vices [10w] Cultivate vices;to be without them is not to be."

"I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants."

"Heart My heart jumps every time you walk through the door.It's not love.I have an arrhythmia."

"The truth between two people always cuts two ways."

"A Poem Must Have an Accomplice If you cannot bamboozle the reader into becoming a willing accomplice to your artifice and collusion the poem won't fly."

"Visual Pun [10w] Example of visual pun:cloud shaped like a banana peel."

"Unruffled [10w] Nothing’s calmer than an unruffled duck eating a cool cucumber."

"Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly."

"Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins."

"Love in the Afterlife [10w] Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.This life, fuhgeddaboudit."

"The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces."

"Fashion [10w] Clothes makes the man.Fashion, above all, makes the President."

"How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others."

"Why is this so hard?” I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard."

"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."

"The Machismo Motto [10w] "When we are not hard as nails we get screwed."

"Deadly Sex Haiku Each thrust of his cockwas another coffin nailhammered in my heart."

"The Moon The moon's a pearl among the starry gems,more cultured than the rest of them.A blemished diadem of charcoaled nightthat chaperons the sun back to the light."