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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Various cat poets
- 22 February 2011
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I didn't have much hope. Soon I would be 50. Love was fitful and glorious and painful. There will always be thugs in caves murdering children and crowing. But we are capable of creating wonders beyond our imagination every second of the game.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 January 2011
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Do Australians hate Americans? No, because Americans invented basketball. What do Australians eat? Yeast paste. It tastes like someone ground up a penguin and then left it in the rain for a month before adding rubber and dirt to it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 04 January 2011
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For every greedy evil rapacious liar priest .. there are thirty great and subtle men .. Who wake alone quite early and don their vocations .. Willingly like a thorny endlessly tumultuous prayer
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 30 November 2010
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Consider the nun we had for first grade ... Sister Dorita, who had a stevedore's forearms. On the second day of school she hauled a bubbling boy named David into the air by his necktie.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 10 November 2010
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Former local sports hero The Hawk took up residence on the town football field. A reporter came looking for a tale of woe but didn't find it. People leave him sandwiches, the kids who play lacrosse set up a screen so his tent won't get peppered by stray shots, and cops drift by to make sure no one's giving him grief.
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Went to return a book the other day and it refused to go
in the BOOKS ONLY slot. I tried again, thinking
perhaps I had suddenly aged beyond belief and could not muster the
muscle to cram it through the wall, but no, it was the book itself,
adamant, recalcitrant, bristling and ruffling indignantly, that would
not allow itself to be returned.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
For every greedy evil rapacious liar priest .. there are thirty great and subtle men .. Who wake alone quite early and don their vocations .. Willingly like a thorny endlessly tumultuous prayer
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 07 April 2010
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As a society we fail our children if we do not carefully remove our
street clothes, don cotton pyjamas, and crawl into the boat
of the bed with a sigh of delight, each and every night, there to voyage,
UnKindled, BlackBerryless, PalmPilotless, into the glory of story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 30 March 2010
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Augustine. Wondrous lesson, that man, but he has been imprisoned by theology. Grant me chastity but not yet, everyone knows that hilarious remark.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 03 February 2010
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Just as Brits were more absorbed by Byron's life than his work, and Australians were absorbed by Shane Warne's antics more than his artistry, J. D. Salinger grew more famous for retreating from public life, than for his masterpieces.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 19 January 2010
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The blizzards of bills, the surly son, the dismissive daughter, the shabby house, the battered car, the shivering pains, the dark thread of fear that I might not have been a good dad, the feeling sometimes that maybe there was a better husband for my wife ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 December 2009
Once I opened a present on which a young niece had
written MARY CHRIST BUS, with every iota of her
tongue-clenched diligence. If I was a wise man, I
would have saved that paper, so that I could even now open it and see the world as it is, ancient, glorious and written endlessly by the young.
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