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Wed 31 Aug 2022

Intersecting

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

“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

—Rebecca West, “There Is No Conversation” (1935 version), The Harsh Voice

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 29 Aug 2022

Desert

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

“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I’m creating an imaginary—it’s always imaginary—world in which I would like to live.”

—William S. Burroughs, The Paris Review, Fall 1965

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Fri 26 Aug 2022

Risk

Posted by PJ under action and activism, aging, change, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We who are old have nothing to lose! We have everything to gain by living dangerously! We can initiate change without jeopardizing jobs or family. We can be the risk-takers.”

—Maggie Kuhn, speech at the Institute of Politics (IOP), March 19, 1981

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Thu 25 Aug 2022

Aunties

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

“Women without children are also the best of mothers, often, with the patience, interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortunate who feels witnessed as a person, outside relationships with parents by another adult.”

― Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood

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Wed 24 Aug 2022

Apparition

Posted by PJ under apparitions, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

“No one who has seen or felt the full force of an apparition demands proof. If they feel compelled to try and prove it to others, it is only because they feel obliged to, by the scientific tenor of the times.”

—Patrick Harper, Daimonic Reality

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Tue 23 Aug 2022

Motto

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

“So I say live and let live. That’s my motto. Live and let live. Anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherf*cker. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family.”

—George Carlin, Carlin on Campus

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Fri 19 Aug 2022

Human

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

“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.”

—Terry Pratchett, Foreword from The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy by David Pringle

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Thu 18 Aug 2022

Signs I thought I saw

Posted by PJ under misreading, signs
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A Tidal Wave of Freud

 

Can’t think of many things worse, frankly.

 

*Fraud

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Thu 18 Aug 2022

Empathy

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

“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”

―Nikki Giovanni, quoted in Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate

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Wed 17 Aug 2022

Time

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

“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.”

—Chögyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Eight

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