Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[covingtoncat73]

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
-- Mark Twain

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
-- Mark Twain

Quoted by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion without giving a source. On their Questionable Quotes page, people at Snopes dispute it's validity.

[kennyc]

"Politeness is no substitute for morality, and won’t save us in the end. We only get to decide who we are."
- Barbara Kingsolver

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Quoted by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion without giving a source. On their Questionable Quotes page, people at Snopes dispute it's validity.

Apparently Dawkins was paraphrasing from the 1959 edition (editor Charles Neider).

http://m.ebay.com/itm/THE-AUTOBIOGRA...-/401191830439

"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together."

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Apparently Dawkins was paraphrasing from the 1959 edition (editor Charles Neider).

http://m.ebay.com/itm/THE-AUTOBIOGRA...-/401191830439

"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together."

Link to the google book page: https://books.google.com/books?id=Oa...er.%22&f=false

[covingtoncat73]

"Thank God cell phones didn't exist then because there would be a shit-ton of Mary Poppins up-skirt pics all over the Internet how. This is exactly why I don't trust wizards" ~Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"Thank God cell phones didn't exist then because there would be a shit-ton of Mary Poppins up-skirt pics all over the Internet how. This is exactly why I don't trust wizards" ~Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy

LOL!



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[kennyc]

it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.

- Mary Oliver, Red Bird

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by kennyc

it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.

- Mary Oliver, Red Bird

Lovely.

Something silly from my current read...

“Then the howling started. It was either hellhounds or teenagers, and she suspected the former.”

― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Lovely.

Something silly from my current read...

“Then the howling started. It was either hellhounds or teenagers, and she suspected the former.”

― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

I love it! Hellhounds or Teenagers.....it happens around here in my neighborhood!

[kennyc]

"Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty; eternal vigilance is the price of human decency."
- Aldous Huxley

http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/...f-liberty.html

[kennyc]

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

Happy Birthday Sam! Samuel Clemens known as Mark Twain was born on this date in 1835

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
-- Mark Twain

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Apparently Dawkins was paraphrasing from the 1959 edition (editor Charles Neider).

http://m.ebay.com/itm/THE-AUTOBIOGRA...-/401191830439

"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together."

Originally Posted by kennyc

Link to the google book page: https://books.google.com/books?id=Oa...er.%22&f=false

Now that's a version I can believe. Evidently the "billions and billions" version was started by someone who was paraphrasing. Of course, learned people in Twain's day thought of the universe as being millions of years old; not billions.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.
~ From The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain, ed. by Charles Neider (1959).

[covingtoncat73]

This seems oddly apropos.

"And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.

This is not her story.

But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences." ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[covingtoncat73]

In the Desert
By Stephen Crane

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”