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Wed 31 Jan 2024

Fairie

Posted by PJ under ancestors, chaos, destruction, fairies, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“In a century like our own, multifariously occupied with trivialities and so highly charged with shattering possibilities, one may profitably inquire what latent quality in at least some of us stimulates, from time to time, a meticulous re-appraisal of the beliefs and performances of our forefathers. It may well be a deep-seated awareness that even matters of Fairie, being less disturbing than those of nuclear physics, tend to provide a modicum of balance and sanity in an age that has already demonstrated, pretty conclusively, its ability to obliterate itself.”

—Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, Land of the Mountain and the Flood

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Wed 8 Mar 2023

Visible

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

“A true work of art in no way depends for its justification on its seeming connections with the place that many call the real world and that I call the visible world.

—Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows

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Wed 22 Feb 2023

Steady

Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“When there is nothing else, when all the world has gone mad, you recite poetry to hold things together, to give life order and meaning. The world is shaking, but poetry is steady.

—Aster Glenn Gray, Honeytrap

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Wed 26 Oct 2022

World

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the world, trust
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Random quote of the day:

“Having developed a sense of trust in oneself, slowly that expands its expression outward, and the world becomes a friendly world rather than a hostile world. You could say that you have changed the world: you have become the king or queen of the universe. On the other hand, you can’t quite say that, because the world has come towards you, to return your friendship.

—Chögyam Trungpa, The Teacup & The Skullcup: Where Zen and Tantra Meet

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Mon 12 Sep 2022

Stink

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

“The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

―Walter Mosley, “On the novelist’s obligation to employ politics and poetry,” The Washington Post, November 20, 2005

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Thu 11 Aug 2022

Back

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Random quote of the day:

“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front—”

—G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

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Thu 4 Aug 2022

Back

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

“I paint with my back to the world.”

—Agnes Martin, quoted in “Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert,” by Olivia Laing,The Guardian, 22 May 2015

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Fri 6 May 2022

Horrible

Posted by PJ under happiness, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”

—Bertrand Russell, quoted in Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic by Alan Wood

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Thu 7 Apr 2022

Enclosed

Posted by PJ under gods, quote of the day, soul, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“The soul is only partly confined to the body, just as God is only partly enclosed in the body of the world.”

—Sendivogius, De Sulphure

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Thu 10 Mar 2022

World

Posted by PJ under acceptance, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“We are one people, we are one family, we are one house. We all live in the same house, the world house.”

—John Lewis, Keynote Address, Pardee RAND Commencement, June 18, 2016

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