Quick: Aphorisms
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The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Glimpse
Quick is George Murray’s second collection of aphorisms — a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He describes these pieces as “poetic essences” — sometimes even as “poems, without all the poetry getting in the way.” Some are deep, some clever, some funny, some all three. The best, he says, should read like common-sense statements that have never actually been expressed.
Built out of more than 450 short statements, Quick is a series of thoughts and ruminations, any one of which could be an entire poem but instead has been compressed into a single profundity. Following his bestselling Glimpse, Murray continues to explore a wide range of themes: from deep existential disquiet to the comforts of the meaning of belief; from what it means to be alive to how the world deals with hate, love, the sublime, and the ridiculous.
George Murray
George Murray is the author of six acclaimed books of poetry for adults. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with his four children, a novelist, and a border collie named Mitsou. This is his first work for children. He does not have fleas. Anymore.
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Quick - George Murray
Elisabeth
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Every opening of the eye is an entry.
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Epiphany is the third ball thrown towards hands that have already caught one each.
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The first boy to snip a flower from your garden for his lover is an enterprising lad, but every one after that is a thief.
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Stupidity is society’s shitty weather: there’s no use complaining about it.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while looking for a different result; of course, this is also the definition of science.
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Life is to poetry as a random number generator is to math: it screws everything up until it accidentally makes everything right.
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Intention is a photograph that hasn’t yet been taken.
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A stroke of genius and a stroke are separated only by hospital time.
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Dare is the larval form of deed.
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The problem with now is it’s over before you kn
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Fears are like clothing: for years you grow into and out of them until you stop growing and find the ones that fit you best.
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Humanity: even after all this evolution we’re still smiling and biting with the same teeth.
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Quiet reflection doesn’t lead to epiphany, it just leads to knowing your mind, in which all epiphanies are already present.
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The closer one comes to perfection the more disappointing the failure.
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Memory is the purest form of imagination.
(Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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A man’s worst enemy is his best friend’s envy.
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The gulf between an ass and a fool is narrower than the one between a pompous ass and a pompous fool.
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Friendship is the park in which power likes to play.
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People wear their politics like bathing suits: some like board shorts, some like Speedos.
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As said by mystics and proctologists both: this too shall pass.
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Politics weaponizes idiocy.
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Friends are the things you have while searching for brothers.
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Believing you believe in something is a fundamentalist act.
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The asshole’s mantra: if you can’t be in charge, be the sheriff.
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A riot is one person’s problems communicated.
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