The Is and the Is Nots

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Tonight your letters reduce
history to a guess.
Anne Sexton, from “Some Foreign Letters,” To Bedlam and Part Way Back

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but life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
Anne Sexton, from the poem “Some Foreign Letters.”

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8 Plays
Christina Perri
Sad Song

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Every moment of my life is my entire life.
Brian Ellis, from his book “Yesterday Won’t Goodbye,” and the poem LEAVING CAPE COD.

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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
– Life of Pi, Yann Martel

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Sometimes it’s necessary to have the dual mind; the mind that knows and the mind that pretends it doesn’t.

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“I took my lucky break and I broke it in two,
Put on my worried shoes, my worried shoes,

Took me so many miles and they never wore out,
My worried shoes, my worried shoes,

Oo-o-o-oo o-oo-ooo, my worried shoes,

I made a mistake that I never forgot,
Tied knots in the laces of my worried shoes,

Every step that I take is another mistake,
I march further and further away in my worried shoes,

Oo-o-o-oo o-oo-ooo, oo-o-o-oo o-oo-ooo, my worried shoes,

My shoes took me down a crooked path,
Away from all welcome mats,
My worried shoes,

I looked all around and saw the sun shining down,
Took off my worried shoes, my worried shoes.”