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Meanwhile 1st April to lie as if they were honest throughout the year.

It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city

Putting my hands on. What April couldn't fix Wasn't worth the time: Egg shell & dried placenta Light as memory. Patches of fur, feathers, & bits of skin. A nest Of small deaths among anemone. A canopy edged over, shadowplaying The struggle underneath As if it never happened

... mixing Memory and desire

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it.

Okay, don't get mad." She pulled out my stake --- or at least something that looked like my stake,only the hilt of it was now covered in bright blue crystals and diamond-like gems. "You Bedazzled my stake?" "Um ... Surprise," April said, "Just because you're hunting nasty stuff doesn't mean you can't do it in style.

Some people can't be fooled on April Fool's Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime.

The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.

The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.

You spend so much time hating the fact that April behaves more like a mother than a sister, but you're the one who's holding onto the apron strings every time she tries to cut them.

You were right when you said I was holding onto April's apron strings even though she was trying to cut them. I've spent so long relying on her that it's sort of become a habit. It's time I relied on myself for a bit and took control of my life.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

April's rare capricious loveliness.

April is a fun month.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

April is the cruellest month.

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?

Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Elizabeth Anne Taylor April 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004 Our Sweetheart, Only resting

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?

Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK? It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.

I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

I shine in tears like the sun in April.

Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

One of the reasons I was so proud to be born on April 3, is because I am such a big fan of yours.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.