William Barker

Unless you've crossed an orange with a goat we have nothing in common. Writer of Belly Up! Magazine.

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Just as you put your ear to a shell and hear the sea, so too can you put your ear to the sea and hear a shell.

[William Barker @blueproust]

The invisible he or she who stars in the overheard train carriage anecdote is always more intriguing than the visible teller.

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@CosmicSkeptic Life doesn't become any more valuable because you divide it into 10,000 units. It becomes more valuable when you love it. B)

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@dallenabi Even the end of the world is not the end of the world.

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The window to true self is continually misted over by the breath of ego.

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'You are your Government' (Anon)

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Wisdom slows you down

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@hmilowicz_ Now there's a challenge🙂

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The bigger the ego, the bigger the field of pontification.
Left unchecked it will write books that claim to explain consciousness, God, reality, the whole works.

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Rarely is the phrase 'I don't give a f**k about what other people think' true.

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When intelligence sneaks ahead of wisdom,
it's like a toddler speeding away from
a parent towards a busy road.

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A typical sentence in the year 2035: 'Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like.'

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The misdemeanours you see on the outside
are rarely less criminal than the ones you
ignore on the inside.

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@stephenfry @BBCTheOneShow Coltishness

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Wisdom is knowing rather than knowledge.

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Wisdom rarely reveals itself in utterances beginning with 'I'.

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A commuter train in lockdown as the beneficial absence of middle-ranking executives on the phone purporting themselves to be the superheroes is some work-related fuss.

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@hmilowicz_ Yes, and a toilet can provide a rare and joyous solitude, perhaps only felt again immediately post death when you have shat your past life out.

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When they put food in their bodies humans often get together with other humans. However, the process of getting food out of the body is a reliably solo affair.

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Deep behind every list of intelligent justifications there often lies a psychological issue that is utterly unjustifiable, utterly unintelligent.