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    Quick: Aphorisms
    Quick: Aphorisms
    Quick: Aphorisms
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    Quick: Aphorisms

    By George Murray

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781773050171
    Quick: Aphorisms
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    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

      — 1 —

      Every opening of the eye is an entry.

      — 2 —

      Epiphany is the third ball thrown towards hands that have already caught one each.

      — 3 —

      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.

      — 4 —

      Stupidity is society’s shitty weather: there’s no use complaining about it.

      — 5 —

      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.

      — 6 —

      Life is to poetry as a random number generator is to math: it screws everything up until it accidentally makes everything right.

      — 7 —

      Intention is a photograph that hasn’t yet been taken.

      — 8 —

      A stroke of genius and a stroke are separated only by hospital time.

      — 9 —

      Dare is the larval form of deed.

      — 10 —

      The problem with now is it’s over before you kn

      — 11 —

      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.

      — 12 —

      Humanity: even after all this evolution we’re still smiling and biting with the same teeth.

      — 13 —

      Quiet reflection doesn’t lead to epiphany, it just leads to knowing your mind, in which all epiphanies are already present.

      — 14 —

      The closer one comes to perfection the more disappointing the failure.

      — 15 —

      Memory is the purest form of imagination.

      (Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)

      — 16 —

      A man’s worst enemy is his best friend’s envy.

      — 17 —

      The gulf between an ass and a fool is narrower than the one between a pompous ass and a pompous fool.

      — 18 —

      Friendship is the park in which power likes to play.

      — 19 —

      People wear their politics like bathing suits: some like board shorts, some like Speedos.

      — 20 —

      As said by mystics and proctologists both: this too shall pass.

      — 21 —

      Politics weaponizes idiocy.

      — 22 —

      Friends are the things you have while searching for brothers.

      — 23 —

      Believing you believe in something is a fundamentalist act.

      — 24 —

      The asshole’s mantra: if you can’t be in charge, be the sheriff.

      — 25 —

      A riot is one person’s problems communicated.

      — 26 —

      Yes

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