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Today is Cormac McCarthy's birthday.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. - Cormac McCarthy |
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"...The mild, blue-eyed young Ohio boy was a complete egotist, as all children are egotists. He did not want friends for the quite simple reason that no child wants friends. He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six- dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York...."
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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Racism isn't born, folks. It's taught. I have a 2-year old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list.
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It is quite possible - overwhelmingly probable, one might guess - that we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology.
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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09-10-2012, 01:54 PM | #1883 |
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet, and I'll die like a poet." - Bob Dylan
great article "Dylan in his own words: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...#ixzz265eEKs3A |
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I say this to myself a dozen times a week--it's the only thing that gets me through sometimes. And I didn't even know it was a real quote or whose...cool!
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Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone, Who all their parts of me to thee did give, That due of many, now is thine alone. -- Shakespeare, sonnet 31 |
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From David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean! Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?” “Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this―one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.” “Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.” “The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.” |
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One of my favorites:
.....Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.
..........— Unknown. (No, it wasn't Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, or even Rita Mae Brown who first made the remark—unless you believe those ubiquitous 3rd rate internet quotations sites whose efforts at research are for all practical purposes non-existent. The people who own those sites wouldn't know a primary source if it walked up and bit them in the backside. Rita Mae Brown did quote it, however, in her 1983 book, Sudden Death; and Wikiquote states, "An early occurrence was used as a teaching reference at University of California, Irvine in social science lectures in the later 1960s. Also found in a 1981 text from Narcotics Anonymous.") |
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.....Presidents are made, not born. That’s a good thing to remember. It’s silly to think that Presidents are born, because very few people are 35 years old at birth, and those who are won’t admit it. So if you’re only 16 don’t be discouraged, because it’s only a phase and there’s nothing wrong with you that you won’t outgrow.
..........— Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (26 July 1895 [year uncertain] - 27 August 1964). Gracie Allen was an American comedian, actress, singer, dancer, and the wife of George Burns. How to Become President (1940), Ch. 2: "Others make good, why not you?" |
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