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I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

~George Fetherling

Topics: Impediment Journal Keeping Part Quite Severe Speech Suffered Therapy Young

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Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things.

~George Fetherling

Topics: Accepted Audience Because Bitter Canada Canadian Cultural Culture Else Elsewhere Endorsed Nowhere Officially Only Place Poets Practically Role Scheme Still Supported Things West

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Romantic ideas about the heart fly in the face of known fact, but that doesn't matter and never has. People many thousands of years ago knew that the heart is basically a blood pump, but that didn't keep them from also believing it was the seat of romantic love (and all other strong emotion).

~George Fetherling

Topics: About Also Basically Believing Blood Emotion Face Fact Fly Heart Ideas Keep Knew Known Love Many Matter Never Other People Pump Romantic Romantic Love Seat Strong Them Thousands Thousands Of Years Years Years Ago

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The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together.

~George Fetherling

Topics: Always Candidates Either Future Heart Hearts Internal Itself Least Lot Martyrs Most Never Noblest Organs Own Preserved Sainthood Say Seen Together Vital Well Whole Would

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There are many thousands of books on particular assassinations and on the subject in general, but nearly all of them deal with the victims, not the perpetrators.

~George Fetherling

Topics: Books Deal General Many Nearly Particular Subject Them Thousands Victims

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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