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John Geddes

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JOHN GEDDES burnt by the sun
of your mouth,
I’m unable to speak
or paint you with words
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JOHN GEDDES ...you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star...
JOHN GEDDES ...skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...
JOHN GEDDES ...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it...
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JOHN GEDDES ...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and...
JOHN GEDDES ...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...
JOHN GEDDES ...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul...
JOHN GEDDES ...the words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche...
JOHN GEDDES ...my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's...
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JOHN GEDDES ...true love is my religion...
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JOHN GEDDES ...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..
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JOHN GEDDES ... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...
JOHN GEDDES ...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest...
JOHN GEDDES ...I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me...
JOHN GEDDES ...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...
JOHN GEDDES ....you were a jumble of broken bits of glass the sun caught and stained my soul with your colors......
JOHN GEDDES ...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer li...
JOHN GEDDES ...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you...
JOHN GEDDES ...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...
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JOHN GEDDES ...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...
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JOHN GEDDES ...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrust...
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JOHN GEDDES ...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that...
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JOHN GEDDES ...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character...
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JOHN GEDDES ...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles ...
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JOHN GEDDES ...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of chu...
JOHN GEDDES a rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything
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PATRICK GEDDES Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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ANGUS GEDDES Fletcher has indicated he wants to focus on other divisions.
ANGUS GEDDES What we've seen last night is a lot of hot air coming out...it may go on for a number of weeks but i...
ANGUS GEDDES It's caused serious disruption to oil refining and production capacity in the Louisiana region. Ther...
ANGUS GEDDES The appetite for infrastructure type of investments in Australia has been enormous in the last five ...
ANGUS GEDDES A positive, was their cost-to-income ratio. There has definitely been some progress on costs.
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GEDDES MACGREGOR The problem with technology is we can't see a bottom. The dilemma right now is there is no leadershi...
ANNETTE GEDDES I think the next move by the Fed will be to take a neutral stance. I think the economy is probably s...
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MEIA GEDDES It is really going to have a chilling (effect), but that's what the company appears to be after.
CLAIRE GEDDES I e-mailed Nick [McCarthy] asking how this could have happened and he wrote back: 'Relentless hooks!...
CHRIS GEDDES They had some pin-point accuracy and good grief, that goal over Robert — nothing he could do.
DOYLE GEDDES As the department head responsible for this report, I realize that we handled this file improperly. ...
GREG GEDDES It's a great win for us, but it also cost us.
DOYLE GEDDES They had some pin-point accuracy and good grief, that goal over Robert — nothing he could do.
DOYLE GEDDES We were deep on them often, but we didn't create many on-net looks at all. But, that's a great Alta ...
DOYLE GEDDES Ultimately, we were very happy with the second half.
DOYLE GEDDES She had one of the best games of any of the girls out there today.
DOYLE GEDDES Our team needed this. We needed a break-out game, so it was good therapy for us. It helped restore s...
DOYLE GEDDES We were frustrated at the half, but the second half made up for it.
DOYLE GEDDES We just didn't finish. If we finish, this game isn't close.
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CHRIS GEDDES With her unmistakable pout and jutting breasts Brigitte Bardot was more than just a goddess. For a w...
DIANA GEDDES The window counter considered numbers often. How many tons of air did the universe contain, for inst...
MEIA GEDDES If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and...
MEIA GEDDES There have been interest. I would say, based on how it has been communicated, (the volume of interes...
DAVID GEDDES We aren't a bit surprised. We never expected them to change their position. We just had to ask for r...
CLAIRE GEDDES My apologies for the late clarification of this agreement.
GREG GEDDES The threat of a strike is certainly going to raise a lot of anxiety for Ottawa residents.
GREG GEDDES There's a real cost to taxpayers if those plans are introduced.
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MEIA GEDDES We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze...
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JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
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JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
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JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
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JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
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JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
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JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
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JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD