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Thu 7 Oct 2021

America

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

“America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.”

—George Santayana, The Last Puritan

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 6 Oct 2021

Empty

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

“One’s need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. If the waiter takes away a chair on which no one is sitting, I feel a void and my sociability is aroused. I can’t live without empty chairs. 

—Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms (tr. Harry Zohn)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 5 Oct 2021

Thankful

Posted by PJ under gratitude, politics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

—H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 4 Oct 2021

Talent

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

“Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred. No novel exists which an ordinary intelligence could not conceive; there is no sentence, no matter how lovely, that a beginner could not construct. What remains is to pick up the pen, to rule the paper, patiently to fill it up.”

—Jules Renard, Journal, 1887 (ed. & tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Fri 1 Oct 2021

Lives

Posted by PJ under history, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“they are hardly close to right,
these lives we live
one after the other,
piled there as history,
the waste of the species,
the crushing of the light and the way,
it’s not quite right,
it’s hardly right at all
he said.

—Charles Bukowski,
    “Cut While Shaving”

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 30 Sep 2021

Flame

Posted by PJ under fire, gratitude, inspiration, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“In everyone’s life at some time the inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

—attributed to Albert Schweitzer

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Wed 29 Sep 2021

Objects

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, spirit, things
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Random quote of the day:

“Man’s spirit is not concerned with objects; that is the business of our analytical faculties. Man’s spirit is concerned with the significance that relates objects to one another. With their totality, which only the piercing eye of the spirit can perceive. The spirit, meanwhile, alternates between total vision and absolute blindness.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras (tr. Lewis Galantière)

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Tue 28 Sep 2021

Ring

Posted by PJ under control, marriage, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“As soon as you say ‘I do,’ you will discover that marriage is like a car. Yeah, both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. Most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell to be heard.”

—Wanda Sykes, Yeah, I Said It

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Mon 27 Sep 2021

Marriage

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

“Love one another, but make not a bond
of love:
     Let it rather be a moving sea between
     the shores of your souls.
     Fill each other’s cup but drink not from
     one cup.
     Give one another of your bread but eat
     not from the same loaf.
     Sing and dance together and be joyous,
     but let each one of you be alone,
     Even as the strings of a lute are alone
     though they quiver with the same music.

—Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 24 Sep 2021

Asking

Posted by PJ under questions and answers, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“I have thought for as long as I can remember that the asking of unanswerable questions and the facing of irreparable truths is our only consolation for having to live through them.”

—Catherine Madsen, “Uncommon Prayer,” The Sun, June 1992

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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