12 Quotes by Karl Kristian Flores about Risk
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Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses get wedgies. Royal Guards had to keep from laughing. The last rep in the gym will make any arm shake. Presidents had to apply. Rome fell.
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Charlie faced the other way. 'I don’t want to go to school today, Mom. I just want to see. I don’t know. Do the day different.
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All singers now sound the same because all you have to do is whisper and sound pretty. No one ever belts. Don’t you wanna hear someone’s heart again?" she said. "All I hear is tongue and breath and cheek and throat. I want ugly again. Mistakes. Uvula.
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Live in the stretch.Extending your limbs out,In a burn, in a hollow trespass,Tremoring, a second away from a shout,And keep going after it hurts-- the animal won't.Live in the stretch.It is the only way to know anything in the dark.It is the only way to feel on fire.The animals eat well, but we can pass the mark.And if beavers land on the moon, this poem has expired.
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We will always be tired, stressed, Processing a tragedy, and/or a little hungry--Like a wild animal, in the middle.The soul comes to play in what we choose to do after.
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I think we all have to meet more people. Help others, be hurt by others, learn from them, fight with them, listen to them, and see things. Over time, one starts to develop a universal voice that is all-fitting— soothing to grandmas, yet exciting to kids. Loud enough to cheer in a stadium and soft enough to whisper in church. A voice that makes sense both to a hungry man on the street and a university professor. An experienced body breeds an encompassing voice.
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The pillow is that devil thing to give us dreams at night so we don’t have to follow our real ones in the day. The blanket is that ghost who gives us a glimpse of what it’s like to be dead—peaceful, but too early. So run away. Turn left. Shiver in the arctic. Burn in the Sahara. Sweat in a subway. Anything, but the sheets.
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Imagine not thinking again. Consciousness will completely end one day and you won’t even be able to check. You won’t have you, but for the moment, you are here. For a limited time, you can feel things and think. You get a glimpse of the universe, to participate in a nanosecond of its infinite life span. Everyone will be mashed potatoes, so why not be a few different things before then?
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I'd like to say that I was here and left tired, sore, and splintered.That I fell in love every New Years and cried before the winter.If earth is mostly water, life isn't about the rocks you save.I have tears on my stop sign, my neighbor has diamonds on his grave.
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