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Bah, humbug!
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Is anyone still watching the nightly news? What's Kim Kardashian trying to imply with her latest fashion statement? Was Justin Beiber arrested after a drunken rant? What's the latest sex scandal to make the rounds? Is Kanye West involved in a feud with another rapper? Anyway, back on topic. Here's my contribution for today:
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The Dank Side of the Moon
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Ruben speaks Truth. Not Fake News!
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"But of all unfortunates there is one creature (for I will not call him man) conspicuous in misfortune. This is he who has forfeited his birthright of expression, who has cultivated artful intonations, who has taught his face tricks, like a pet monkey, and on every side perverted or cut off his means of communication with his fellow-men. The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying to passersby to come and love us. But this fellow has filled his windows with opaque glass, elegantly coloured. His house may be admired for its design, the crowd may pause before the stained windows, but meanwhile the poor proprietor must lie languishing within un-comforted, unchangeably alone."
- Robert Louis Stevenson "The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays" |
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Wizard
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Great quote, Kenny
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Home Guard
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“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents |
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How amazingly appropriate!
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Gee, we managed to get (F) All Of The Above!
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
- Ernest Miller Hemingway (from Nobel acceptance speech read by someone else) |
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
- Leonard Cohen |
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"I was never interested in Disney princesses as a child. My dolls didn't get married, they got haircuts and amputations."
- Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body |
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"Language is my only homeland"
- Czeslaw Milosz ".... He moved to the United States and began teaching at the University of California at Berkeley in 1960. He had mixed feelings about the United States: he wrote, “What splendor! What poverty! What humanity! What inhumanity! What mutual good will! What individual isolation! What loyalty to the ideal! What hypocrisy! What a triumph of conscience! What perversity!” He kept writing poetry in Polish, even though almost no one was reading it. His books had been banned in Poland, and his poems weren’t translated into English until 1973. Then, in 1980, he got a phone call at 3:00 in the morning telling him that he’d won the Nobel Prize in literature...." From today's Writers Almanac |
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“ ‘Bears is sixpence extra ... Sticky bears is ninepence.’ ”
- A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond (13 January 1926 - 27 June 2017) |
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