Gary Jurechka:
CLASS OF 1982
Dixon High SchoolClass of 1982
Dixon, IL
Gary's Story
Gary's schools include Dixon High School.
Gary's interests include Street art, Steelbook, The Usual Suspects, Box Man. Music he likes includes Nazareth - Band, Imagine Dragons, Almost Blue. Books he likes include Stephen King, Dancing with your Dragon: The Art of Loving your Unlovable Self, Lord Of The Rings Fan Page. Movies he likes include HMV Hong Kong, 3 Days To Kill, Blu-ray SteelBooks. TV shows he likes include The Walking Dead, The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge, Sleepy Hollow.
One of Gary's favorite quotes is:""Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"It is what it is."
"I do not write my poems, I live them" ~ G.J.
'We do not perceive
things as they are,
we perceive them
as we are.'
~ (from the poem 'Vagaries Of Perception') by G.J.
'The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.' - G.J.
'Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong - sometimes it’s letting go.'
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be"
~ Lao-tzu
"Be true to yourself. Those who matter won't mind and those who mind won't matter" -Dr Seuss
"I have great faith in all things not yet spoken"
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again" - Frank O'Hara
"Your own positive future begins in this moment.
All you have is right now.
Every goal is possible from here"
~ Lao-tzu
'There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go"
-Richard Bach
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
~ Oscar Wilde
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ~ T.S. Eliot
"The poet makes hims...Expand for more
elf a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational
disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of
madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and
keeps only their quintessences." - Arthur Rimbaud
"There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen." - Hugh Prather
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."-Robert Graves
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
"Your own positive future begins in this moment.
All you have is right now.
Every goal is possible from here"
~ Lao-tzu
'Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.'
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
— Charles Bukowski
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say" ~ Anaïs Nin
"If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."
~ Counting Crows - from Mrs. Potter's Lullaby (This Desert Life cd)
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~ Thomas Gray
"Have I told you about my condition?" - Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) from the film 'MEMENTO'
"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Alas, poor gentleman,
He look'd not like the ruins of his youth
But like the ruins of those ruins."
~ John Ford from The Broken Heart
"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken". ~ Oscar Wilde.
"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time".
~T.S. Eliot
"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates (Apology 38a)
"Dammit, Beavis!" - Butt-Head (Mike Judge)".
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