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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Dayenu

It would have been enough
Had God merely kept His promises
 
But since He knows a thing or two
About human psychology
God always under-promises and over-delivers
 
This is how
Despite having already read the end of the book
It remains a surprise ending

Altre opere di Chris Gaither...
The Neighborhood of Make Believe

We’ve gone from treating people as a means to an end to using them as props for pretend
Wins and Losses

I risked loss And lost; I win
The First Step in Fixing It Is Realizing It Can’t Be Fixed, the Next Step Is Not Giving Up, the Last Step Is Giving

Nietzsche was right– “Life itself is will to power” But so was Plato– “The measure of a man is what he d… As was Lord Acton–
The Subjunctive Is a Mood: If I Were a Creative, I’d Be a Depressive

Where once an artist was a creator she is now a creative because a noun requires a verb and we’re meant to do nothing which pays well on the internet
“One day, one day, one day”

When we imagine the future, we say One day Because One day is the name of a day As in New Year’s Day
It’s Impossible to Share and Impossible to Be Alone but It’s Possible to Do Both and We Crawled Out of the Ocean to Try

A fishbowl made of screen glass is a fishbowl made for one that is magically adjacent to every other fishbowl in this world we conjured where
“Arise my love, my fair one, and come away”

God is the only Subject Who see things objectively So, God’s object Is to change the subject And God knows that, like Him, we…
Civilized Behavior

A person is like a cat who puts a bell around its own nec… but continues to hunt
Imposter Syndrome Couldn’t Be More Aptly Named

What do you call a wolf in sheep’s clothing who believes you are what you wear? The ruling class
Us: “If You Leave...” God: “I Will Never Leave”

In Judaism The three most important prohibiti… Idolatry, adultery, and murder In idolatry you abandon God In adultery you abandon your soulm…
You Have to See the Truth in Order to Imagine the Possibilities

In Let there be plight the P is silent
“Come inside, the show’s about to start”

Initially, as you approach hell it feels like you’re getting a warm welcome
The Unofficial Results of the Unwritten Rules

In countries with official state-r… Everyone pretends to pay attention So that they can go back to being… In countries with unacknowledged s… Everyone pays attention
Here’s Looking at You

If you would remake the world In your own image Then I can only imagine You believe you’ve thought of ever…
Looking for a Hollywood Sign

When we had bodies they called us extras which was short for extraneous though our negligible status lent a degree of latitude



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