quote of the day


Random quote of the day:

“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

—Katherine Mansfield, letter to Ida Baker, 7 March 1922

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Random quote of the day:

“A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else. They become a pretty little convenience, like a guest towel.”

—John D. Macdonald, The Deep Blue Good-by

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Random quote of the day:

“If you look into the camera and you see something you recognize, don’t click the shutter.”

—Hiro (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi), quoted in the New York Times “The Lives They Lived” obituary 12/24/21

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Random quote of the day:

“Even for those who are no longer so young, old age remained an alien land, its residents regarded with both pity and suspicion.

—Sherry Thomas, A Conspiracy in Belgravia

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Random quote of the day:

“Cats don’t give up their secrets easily. But the challenge is why I’m a cat person rather than a dog person. Dogs — they’re just like us! They present little mystery. Cats are the more cerebral companion. The fun is figuring them out.”

—Farhad Manjoo, “I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head,” The New York Times, August 27, 2021

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Random quote of the day:

“Memories of traumatic experiences are a curious thing. Some are vivid; some are pale; pretty much all of them have been emended in some way, great or small. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to our curated reels. We remember the trivial and forget the exceptional. Our minds truly have minds of their own.”

—Jennifer Senior, “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021

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Random quote of the day:

“A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”

—Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Random quote of the day:

“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.”

—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

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Random quote of the day:

“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.”

—Raymond Chandler, “Great Thought,” February 19, 1938, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler

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Random quote of the day:

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

—Sherry Thomas, A Conspiracy in Belgravia

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