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21 " I laughed it off but I close the bedroom door and I lose it and I stick it all down here and this is where it all stays. And this is where it has to stay because I am not ending up in the nutter ward again with brown walls, jigsaws, and people crying that their husbands left them, and men slamming their heads against walls, and Mum bringing me a mini trifle and a copy of Smash Hits like that would make everything better. It didn’t. It won’t. It can’t. Psychiatric wards when most of my mates were….I can’t tell anyone what is going on…Can’t write…Can’t think about it.Not even here. "
22 " I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane "
23 " A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side. "
― Margi Preus , West of the Moon
24 " A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. "
25 " God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. "
26 " One must not trifle with love. "
27 " Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. "
28 " Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. "
