I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
quote by Brion James
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Sensitivity
do not be oversensitive
on this skin of mine
it is nothing compared to the
lusciousness of your lips
take pride
that i have stopped smoking
after you
kissed my lips
after this
i will long for more
dawn time till the break of
morning
i need sleep.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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We All Have Our Days
They love to exaggerate,
Every move I make...
With a microscopic investigation,
As being foolish and incompetent.
Or arrogant with an undue self assurance,
If my shoes appear to be unproperly tied.
Yet every 'mistake' they make that is blatant,
Someone recommends a sedative be taken.
With rest suggested by a psychoanalyst.
And test administered to ensure that it was stress,
That was at the core of their committing...
The most heinous crimes instigated against humanity!
'Well...
You must admit,
We all have our days.
Especially those that are more strenuous than others.~
I know.
And there is not a day that goes by,
That keeps me reminded...
I may be too oversensitive to such probes.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
quote by Flannery O'Connor
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I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
quote by Brad Holland
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
quote by Newt Gingrich
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You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
quote by Matthew Vaughn
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A Swollen Tortoise
We happily conversed while you experimented,
I promised myself I won't take a bite as you added
beef stock to curry, when I refused you insisted, it
should be safe - now I'm awake, a small fire in my
intestines reminding me why my world is so small
Step over the line of eating restriction and pay the
price, I can't sleep at all, listening to Tiaan's restless
pacing indicates he shares my fate; can't close my
eyes, can't lie down, the floor does not offer any
respite - I'm convicted by my own choice to
eat things my system cannot process - I resemble
Ionesco's rhinoceros, feeling like a swollen tortoise*,
I read multiple personalities react differently to stimuli
depending on which one occupies the body - I wish
I had another me, like the three faces of Eve - to
change my chemical set-up, the only effect change
has is varied feelings - from terribly depressed to
totally ecstatic - yet my body remains the same
oversensitive seismograph - making me wish
for separation of body and mind
As soon as possible…
16/02/2012
*or a beached whale - whichever comes first…
poem by Margaret Alice Second
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
quote by John McGahern
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Good Old Manners
What having manners mean?
Pompously speaking same tongue as Queen?
Knowing how fancy table perfectly is set
Or how to eat proper with not a stain or finger wet?
Whole complicated code of how to dress
Or to salute with gracious reverence?
Nooo, not really, isn't it more than that! ?
The Respect we've got to have
From deep inside
Not only showed, but really felt?
For anyone or anything..
Is watching self, be fair, good, keeping clean
Not stink, nor sting, never be mean
always being careful not to say or do
to others, any unpleasant thing!
Those are good manners, don't you think?
For any human kind to keep at heart
No matter if they're living
In a Palace or in a simple tiny Hut
If they don't know to read or write
or if they have an MBA at Oxford or Harvard.
The Simple Old Good Manners
Let all of us to be aware of Others
Then harmony, hopefully, we 'll find
For us, the human kind..
poem by Elena Sandu
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
quote by Stephen Fry
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Of Sparks And Hearts
of what can we claim
that we say deep from our
hearts?
love? overused, abused,
molested, that is what people always
say
sometimes without meaning
anymore
cliches, cliches,
nothing of that spark
for those that come from the heart
without even trying
hard to say it
its the hug that speaks
the kiss that seals
the hand that touches the
shoulder
the eyes that see not
what we are
not
what can we see from
the heart?
veins, blood,
muscles.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Beings Existing In Visions
Reading on while my inner Agony Aunt rants again: the
style is pure melodrama, the descriptions and the minutia
of noticing every aspect of every face - the oversensitive
reactions, if we lived like that we'd be fatigued spending
our energy being conscious of people and the adolescent
conviction that a love will endure forever - I know better
Irrational youngsters unaware how lack of understanding
and bad communication destroy the loves we harbour in-
side, the story only shows young people living in the throb
of the moment but ignorant of the facts of life, I stifle the
voice of my Agony Aunt - dive into the action again, after
expressing her concerns she falls silent; I live the fantasy
The child within me refuses to heed realism, preferring to
enter a trance and enjoy the romance as only the very in-
experienced can - I give in to this delightful feeling and
ignore the complaints from my rational mind, it is ever so
enjoyable to follow my heart, besides, I'm always willing
to pay the price when I transgress, crying afterwards
As long as I accept the inevitable punishment I shall be
free to enter the Wonderland, see the bizarre and follow
the burlesque where my soul finds strange new ideas
and delights in the dream of eternal love - I shall pay
whatever the cost to share in the vision of such
heavenly beings only existing in visions
poem by Margaret Alice Second
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
quote by Lord Acton
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Living It Will Be The Experience
Oh yeah...prove it!
You are always picking things apart,
To try to find something wrong.
Why can't you play along?
Oh yeah...prove it!
You seem to see life as negative.
And can not accept what is as is.
I hear you do this...
All night and day long!
Why can't you play along?
'I am not into games that remain the same.
Nor truth do I ignore!
If I witness something I question...
My mind will find answers,
To further in my mind be explored.
You see...
Poverty and homelessness,
In the midst of those who are rich.
To me is a sickness,
Of one's consciousness.
If observing this is allowed to exist!
People professing how great they are...
As they steal from others and watch them starve.
To me is a human tragedy.
And I don't accept this as how life should be!
I think of those who say they have faith,
But live everyday in fear...
Are fakes.
And I will be blasphemous and say...
Whatever 'that' is they pray to,
It isn't God!
Not the One I listen to and obey!
For truth and understanding to come my way.
And hypocrites who wish for materialistic dreams...
Are nothing more than opportunists,
Hoping to benefit from their lieing and deceitful schemes.
And if it seems I am 'always' picking things apart...
Perhaps I'm being oversensitive.
Too emotionally connected to a feeling and caring heart.
I'll admit that's how I am.
And from that I will not depart!
And I'll leave you with this to hear from my lips...
You and anyone else who feels I am negative,
Will come one day to feel regret.
Because the God I know,
Observing what I see that clearly shows...
Is about to make big changes,
To all your beliefs.
And is in the process to upset...
Everything you hold dear and cherish! '
Oh yeah...
Prove it!
'Somehow I do not believe,
That will be up to me to do it!
I already see the evidence!
Since everything you do,
Is making less sense!
Your entire way of life...
Is going through rapid changes.
And for you or me or anyone else...
Living it,
Will be the experience! '
Oh yeah?
Oh yeah?
You think you know so much!
'Well...
I'm not the one trying to hussle up a buck,
To get a cup of coffee! '
So whatchu sayin, man?
You ain't got no money,
To give to me for a cup of coffee! ?
'I'm not saying that at all!
I just don't feel like playing along.'
God bless you, my brutha.
God bless you, my brutha!
'Oh yeah?
Whatever! '
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
quote by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
quote by Richard Whately
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You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
quote by Lillian Gish
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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
quote by Bryant H. McGill
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