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Fri 16 Jul 2021

Sensitive

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

“Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.”

—Kin Hubbard, New Sayings by Abe Martin

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Wed 14 Jul 2021

Hand

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

“A hand moves, and the fire’s whirling takes different shapes.
All things change when we do.
The first word, “Ah,” blossoms into all others.
Each of them true.”

—Kūkai, “Singing Images of Fire,” 9th c. (tr. Jane Hirshfield)

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Tue 13 Jul 2021

Junk

Posted by PJ under addiction, brainwashing, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies his client.”

—William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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Mon 12 Jul 2021

Creation

Posted by PJ under books, conscious and subconscious, creation, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

—Salman Rushdie, Independent on Sunday, 4 February 1990

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Fri 9 Jul 2021

Picture

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

“The whole of life is just like watching a [film]….Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

—Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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Thu 8 Jul 2021

Desire

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

“Brute physical desire is easy. But desire at the same time as affection calls for time. One has to travel through the whole land of love before finding the flame of desire. Is that why it is always so hard to desire, in the beginning, what one loves?”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1952, tr. Justin O’Brien

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Wed 7 Jul 2021

People

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, quote of the day, the human condition, themes, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“There’s a notion out in the land that there are human beings one writes about, and then there are black people or Indians or some other marginal group. If you write about the world from that point of view, somehow it is considered lesser. It’s racist, of course. The fact that I chose to write about black people means I’ve only been stimulated to write about black people. We are people, not aliens. We live, we love, we die.”

—Toni Morrison, Black Women Writers at Work, ed. Claudia Tate

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Tue 6 Jul 2021

Mind

Posted by PJ under mind, perspective, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”

—Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop

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Fri 2 Jul 2021

Simple

Posted by PJ under academia, artists, quote of the day, simplicity
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Random quote of the day:

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

—Charles Bukowski, Notes of A Dirty Old Man

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Wed 30 Jun 2021

Good

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

“I’m thankful to say that life has been and is good to me. Because of this I believe my task is to be good to it in return. How do you be good to life? You live it well and hopefully make it good for others.”

—Morgan Freeman, Twitter, February 8, 2021

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