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Thu 31 Jul 2014

Creation

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

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

—Richard Feynman, on his blackboard at the time of death in 1988, as quoted in The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

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Wed 30 Jul 2014

Threshold

Posted by PJ under feelings, grief, healing, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Grief can have qualities of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of our awareness.”

—Stephen and Ondrea Levine,
Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

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Tue 29 Jul 2014

Perception

Posted by PJ under imagination, perception, quote of the day, soul
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Random quote of the day:

“Without imagination the soul is not perceptible.”

—Robert M. Place, adapted from the Hermetic teachings of Antoine Faivre in The Tarot: History, Symbolism and Divination

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Mon 28 Jul 2014

Change of mind

Posted by PJ under mind, novels, opinion, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Even if because of your book people do get ready to reconsider something, they don’t know it. And if they do know it, they don’t admit it. And if they write me a letter saying, ‘Your novel has changed my life,’ I don’t believe them.”

—Amos Oz, interview, New York Times, December 13, 2003

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Fri 25 Jul 2014

Telling stories

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

“I can only make direct statements, only ‘tell stories.’ Whether or not the stories are ‘true’ is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Thu 24 Jul 2014

Modern motherhood

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

“Any suburban mother can state her role sardonically enough in a sentence: it is to deliver children—obstetrically once and by car forever after.”

—Peter De Vries, “Humorists Depict the Suburban Wife,” Life Magazine, Dec. 24, 1956

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Wed 23 Jul 2014

Obligations

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

“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”

—René Magritte, quoted in Studio International, June 1968

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Mon 21 Jul 2014

Boom and bust

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

“There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it is a part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.”

—John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria

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Fri 18 Jul 2014

A breed apart

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

“Good sense and good nature suggest civility in general, but in good breeding there are a thousand little delicacies which are established only by custom.”

—Lord Chesterfield, quoted in Our Deportment by John H. Young

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Thu 17 Jul 2014

Plotting

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

“I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways to keep readers reading….When you exclude plot, when you exclude anyone’s wanting anything, you exclude the reader, which is a mean-spirited thing to do.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, interview, The Paris Review, Issue 69, Spring 1977

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