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All the unhurried day / your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
-Philip Larkin
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All The Unhurried Day / Your Mind

Philip Larkin
All the unhurried day / your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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I am not anti-gun. i'm pro-knife. consider the merits of the knife. in the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. a general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. we'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. plus, knives don't ricochet. and people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. it's better, if there's something good in it that i might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. if i leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. if your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your ignorance is in control. intelligence or ignorance? your ability to keep an open mind and appreciate multiple points of view is conscious choice. and one that can open your world, and shape your childs future.
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He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a t-shirt drawer. he believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. my mother would have died.
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If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.
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