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Mon 15 Jul 2019

Compassion

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

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

—Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book

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 12 Jul 2019

Drum

Posted by PJ under conformity, eccentricity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“He who marches out of line hears another drum.”

—Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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 11 Jul 2019

Door

Posted by PJ under books, doorways, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?”

—Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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 10 Jul 2019

Planet

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

“Every novelist ought to invent his own technique, that is the fact of the matter. Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna. Thus, Faulkner’s technique is certainly the best one with which to paint Faulkner’s world, and Kafka’s nightmare has produced its own myths that make it communicable. . . . The work of art itself. . . is the solution to the problem of technique.”

—François Mauriac, La Table Ronde magazine, August 1949

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 9 Jul 2019

More

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

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

—Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucillus, Letter II

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 8 Jul 2019

Moonshine

Posted by PJ under in the moment, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

—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 3 Jul 2019

Windowpane

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

“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a windowpane.”

—Billy Collins, The Paris Review, Fall 2001, No. 159

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 2 Jul 2019

Cranky

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

“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.”

—Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts

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 1 Jul 2019

Inking

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

“The aphorism is the inkling of something greater, unspoiled by further inking.”

—Wieslaw Brudzinski, quoted in Literature and Philosophy, ed. Herbert Grabes

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 28 Jun 2019

Barking

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

“The dog barked, but the caravan moved on.”

—Moroccan 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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