An aphorism/ should be/ like a burr:/ sting,/ and leave/ a little soreness. . . -Irving Layton

 

An aphorism/ should be/ like a burr:/ sting,/ and leave/ a little soreness. . .


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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

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