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Tue 19 May 2020

Voyage

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

“It gets into one’s blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.”

—Donna Tartt, A Conversation with Donna Tartt, LanguageIsAVirus.com (Random House), no date given

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 15 May 2020

Change

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

“We started from scratch, every American an immigrant who came because he wanted change. Why are we now afraid to change?”

—Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow Is Now

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 14 May 2020

Platitude

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

“Platitude—An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.”

—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, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 13 May 2020

Cinema

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

“Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.”

—Federico Fellini, The Atlantic, December 1965

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 12 May 2020

Opaque

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

“Art is magic, emancipated from the lie of being truth.”

—Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia (tr. Dennis Redmond)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 11 May 2020

Stone

Posted by PJ under education, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“Learning while young is like carving in stone.”

—Arabian proverb

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 8 May 2020

Snow

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

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

—Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 7 May 2020

Spell

Posted by PJ under beauty, quote of the day, spring
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Random quote of the day:

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”

—Emily Dickinson, letter to Frances and Louise Norcross, April 1873

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 6 May 2020

Wilderness

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

“I don’t know why [the wilderness] is categorized as “other” or why people discount the protection of landscape as something different from the protection of family. We’re all made of the same stuff.”

—Terry Tempest Williams, Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2019

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 5 May 2020

Doodle

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

“The doodle is the brooding of the hand.”

—Saul Steinberg, quoted in Saul Steinberg by Harold Rosenberg

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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