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Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

— Arthur M. Jolly interview with Purple Pencil Adventures (2010)

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Marriage is the safe harbor men proffer from a tempest they themselves conjure into creation.

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A servant is the true reflection of his master.

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One of those monstrosities that nature so cruelly inflicts upon her world, like a two headed calf or a servant with ginger eyebrows.

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She's the goddess of all things sweaty and sticky.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Every Battle, Every War (2007)

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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