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Mon 26 Feb 2018

Free fall

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”

—attributed to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 22 Feb 2018

Writing something

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, ‘Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.’ She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. My daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, ‘Is he sick?’ ‘No,’ my wife says, ‘he’s writing something.’”

—James Thurber, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 1958, ed. Malcolm Crowley

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 21 Feb 2018

Lessons

Posted by PJ under lessons learned, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”

—Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 19 Feb 2018

Myself

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself . . .”

—Anne Sexton, “You, Doctor Martin”

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Fri 16 Feb 2018

Empty rooms

Posted by PJ under being human, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.”

—François Mauriac, Journal, 1932-1939

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 15 Feb 2018

Love, a day late

Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love—first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”

—Albert Camus, A Happy Death (tr. Richard Howard)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 14 Feb 2018

Behind the eyes

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Somewhere in the blood you have a play, and you wait until it passes behind the eyes.”

—Arthur Miller, The Paris Review, Issue 152, Fall 1999

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 13 Feb 2018

Heroic

Posted by PJ under heroes, persistence, proverb, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.”

—Norwegian proverb

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Mon 12 Feb 2018

The judgment of the dogs

Posted by PJ under conscience, dogs, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If a dog not naturally possessed of the devil will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience…”

—Woodrow Wilson, “Young People and the Church”

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 9 Feb 2018

Dear illusion

Posted by PJ under illusion, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“The illusion that exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.”

—Aleksandr Pushkin, The Hero

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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