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"The color of truth is gray."
- Andre Gide
"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, fr. The Over-Soul
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is "Thank You," it will be enough.
-Meister Eckhart
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and to have courage when things go wrong."
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."
John Stuart Mill
"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you."
--Christopher Hitchens
"I can still be considered an American, even though I hate the war and I love homos." --Lynda Barry
Creativity is part of the growth of human beings, just like creativity is part of the growth of nature. And whenever something stops your growth, that’s when you really have to fight. It’s very important that we keep creating things.
--Yoko Ono
"Beauty is a kind of mystery." --Yanagi
Creativity is part of the growth of human beings, just like creativity is part of the growth of nature. And whenever something stops your growth, that’s when you really have to fight. It’s very important that we keep creating things.
--Yoko Ono
"Beauty is a kind of mystery." --Yanagi
The search is what anyone would undertake if she were not sunk in the everydayness of her own life.
--Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
--Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
In emotional genres, you cannot advocate good taste as an argument.
--Guillermo Del Toro
"My step brother got married two years ago, and because I am pretty sure that he doesn’t know how to read, I don’t feel scared about posting this on the Internet: It was an absolutely style-less, emotion-less exercise in excess, I barely saw anyone smile, and I’m positive that the charade set them back $50k. "
--Jackie, XOJane
--Guillermo Del Toro
"My step brother got married two years ago, and because I am pretty sure that he doesn’t know how to read, I don’t feel scared about posting this on the Internet: It was an absolutely style-less, emotion-less exercise in excess, I barely saw anyone smile, and I’m positive that the charade set them back $50k. "
--Jackie, XOJane
Original: 子曰：“吾十有五而志于学，三十而立，四十而不惑，五十而知天命，六十而耳顺，七十而从心所欲，不逾矩。”
English: Confucius said:”When I was fifteen, I aspired to learn. At thirty, I could be independent. At forty, I am not deluded. At fifty, I knew my destiny. At sixty, I knew truth in all I heard. At seventy, I could follow my heart’s desire without overstepping the line.”
Tempus Fugit
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
- George Burns
- George Burns
There are days, one of them, when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How precise are you going to reconcile yourself to your situation here and how you are going to communicate to the vast, heedless, unthinking, cruel white majority that you are here?
–James Baldwin
If you believe everything you read, better not read these blogs:
"You can pretend to be serious. You cannot pretend to be witty."
--Sacha Guitry
--Sacha Guitry
By Its Cover: What I'm Reading
"I am not an American. I am the American."
--Mark Twain
--Mark Twain
"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
--Voltaire
--Voltaire
"What happened was enjambment. Writing over the end of the line and having a noun starting each line — it had some psychological meaning to me, like I was protecting things by hiding them. Poems started pouring out of me and Satan was in a lot of them. Also, toilets."
--Sharon Olds
--Sharon Olds
"I am not interested in … such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions."
--Thornton Wilder
--Thornton Wilder
"A walking woman, a waiting woman, a watching woman, a mourning woman, a devout woman, adobe, cedar posts, old dry wood, the fields of alfalfa, the churches--I love these things. These have made me paint and I am grateful."
--Rebecca Salsbury James
--Rebecca Salsbury James
Scripta manent, verba volant: What is written remains, what is spoken vanishes into air
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
-Anatole France
-Anatole France
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. [S]he who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Pain is neither intolerable nor continuing, provided you remember its limits and do not let your imagination add to it."
Epicurus
Epicurus
Don't give up five minutes before the miracle.
"I had no destination, not that night, not ever in my life.”
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
--Bertrand Russell
--Bertrand Russell
"The color of truth is gray."
- Andre Gide
"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, fr. The Over-Soul
“My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of Western civilization, to make it a feminist world.”
—Marilyn French (1929-2009)
—Marilyn French (1929-2009)
"To be threatened by someone's strength, you have to be in competition with him. Or weakened by sentiment."
-Yasmina Reza
-Yasmina Reza
From an interview with Tom Waits:
Q: What is a gentleman?
A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
“The oldest narrative in the world is the journey. I don’t really believe in originality. Art and human expression are about variations. There’s an ocean of possible ways, but they don’t ever come in the same configuration.”
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
– Gloria Steinem
– Gloria Steinem
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. -Kurt Vonnegut
Don't be afraid. Just play the music.
--Charlie Parker
--Charlie Parker
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
--Harlan Ellison
--Harlan Ellison
In corners and clear fenestres of glass,
Full busily Arachne weaving was,
To knit her nettis and her webbis sly,
Therewith to catch the little midge or fly.
--Douglas Gavin, fr. "Morning in May"
Full busily Arachne weaving was,
To knit her nettis and her webbis sly,
Therewith to catch the little midge or fly.
--Douglas Gavin, fr. "Morning in May"
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
--Kafka
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
--Kafka
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Her hermitism was not odd. Although she seemed expansive and cordial, she had a solitary character and an impenetrable heart."
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. --Satchel Paige
"A woman thinking or working is always alone, let her be where she will."
--Henry David Throeau
--Henry David Throeau
Her honor, her affairs, her friends, her state/ neglected all, with swift intent she goes/ To quench the fire which in her liver glows/ O rash false heat. . .
--Wm. Shakespeare
--Wm. Shakespeare
Happiness is an inside job.
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
--Elie Wiesel (Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech)
My life has been incredible. I don't believe a word of it.
--Madam Du Barry
--Madam Du Barry
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
--Theodore Sturgeon
--Theodore Sturgeon
Fail. Fail again. Fail better.
--Samuel Beckett
--Samuel Beckett
“Remember everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong.”
--Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
--Harry Truman
--Harry Truman
Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is "Thank You," it will be enough.
-Meister Eckhart
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. — Søren Kierkegaard
What Sei Said
In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful...
In summer, the nights...
In autumn the evenings, when the glittering sun sinks close to the edge of the hills and the crows fly back to their nests in threes and fours and twos...
When the sun has set, one's heart is moved by the sound of the wind...
-from The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
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