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Tue 22 Jan 2019

Facing

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

“I thought my problem was to face death with gaiety, now I have learned it is to face life.”

—W. B. Yeats, letter to Dorothy Wellesley, 1939

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Mon 21 Jan 2019

Change

Posted by PJ under change, courage and fear, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Courage is the atom of change.”

—Bettina R. Flores, Chiquita’s Cocoon

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Fri 18 Jan 2019

Wake

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

“Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

—John Updike, Self-Consciousness

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Thu 17 Jan 2019

Work

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

“Work is the only practical consolation for having been born.”

—Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations (tr. Anthony Kerrigan)

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Wed 16 Jan 2019

Revision

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

“Because of the workshop and the M.F.A. phenomenon there’s much too much revision going on. Revision can grind a good impulse to dust.”

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

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Tue 15 Jan 2019

Rainbow

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

“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

—Dolly Parton, Twitterfeed, February 17, 2015

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Mon 14 Jan 2019

Keyholes

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

“I’ve never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.”

—Judy Garland, interview, NBC TV, March 16, 1961

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Fri 11 Jan 2019

Escape

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

“Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape.”

—Azerbaijani proverb

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Thu 10 Jan 2019

Distant star

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

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”

—G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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Wed 9 Jan 2019

Weaponized

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

“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”

—Pablo Picasso, Les lettres française

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