Archive for June, 2018

Random quote of the day:

“When your past calls, don’t answer; it has nothing new to say.”

—Deb Sofield, blog, September 10, 2016

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Random quote of the day:

“A beautiful thing is never perfect.”

—Egyptian proverb

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Random quote of the day:

“Earth is forgiveness school; let it begin with me.”

—Anne Lamott, Twitterfeed, August 1, 2013

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Random quote of the day:

“It has baffled most people who’ve tried to analyze just what takes place in the creative process. Even Freud, who gave up on almost nothing, seemed to have given up on that. It remains mysterious; and it’s probably a good thing that it does. It may be that the mystery is among the things that attract those of us who write.”

—John Hersey, The Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1986, No. 100

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Random quote of the day:

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”

—Voltaire, letter to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767

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Random quote of the day:

“A dream is a kind of floating island we don’t realize is a dream, or that it is floating.”

—Joyce Carol Oates, Twitterfeed, August 12, 2013

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Random quote of the day:

“Give me enough hope and I’ll hang myself.”

—Lou Reed, “O Delmore how I miss you,” Poetry Magazine, June 1, 2012

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Random quote of the day:

“Never say no to an idea—you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.”

—Stanley Kubrick, quoted by Nicole Kidman, Hollywood Reporter, November 2, 2012

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Random quote of the day:

“Wives are people who feel that they don’t dance enough.”

—Groucho Marx, “What This Country Needs,” This Week, June 16, 1940

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Random quote of the day:

“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.”

—Paul Valéry, Tel Quel

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