A toast to the human madness.
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Learning Quotation
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
Age
Why
Quotation: Albert Camus
Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens everyday. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Retirement Poem – Richard Armour
Retired is being twice tired, I’ve thought First tired of working, Then tired of not. ~Richard Armour
Writing ~ A Tiny Iota Of A Tale
Writing something. Anything. People will love reading it.
Quote: Ignorance – W. E. B. Du Bois
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” – W. E. B. Du Bois
Cheese: A Short Story
Eating cheese. Lots of cheese, as in Cheddar cheese. Yummy. Woke up in the morning, constipated. Not a good way to start off the day.
Meet Again ~ Tom Petty
You and I will meet again When we’re least expecting it One day in some far off place I will recognize your face I won’t say goodbye my friend For you and I will meet again ~Tom Petty
Six Word Story
Passing time. Chewing gum. Blowing bubbles.
Goodbye Quote: Charles M. Schulz
Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
Poverty ~ Matt Damon
“You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.” – Matt Damon
Democracy ~ Howard Zinn
“Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning […]
Life Quote
Picture Quotes
Six Word Story
Sweeping the detritus off the sidewalk.
Fact Quote
Picture Quotes
Thinking
Is there a difference between a trial run vs a real one?
One Sentence Fiction
Took a walk on the tame side, not the wild one.
Weird – A Short Story
When Jimmy Jon is talking to anyone, he has a bad habit of squeezing the numerous zits, that cover his face and body. A dermatologist would have a field day trying to clean up the mess.
The Past – A Short Story
Elliott always walks backwards, because he wants to make sure that he didn’t miss anything. He believes in seeing and living in the past tense. He says that will never change.
Steven Wright ~ Two Babies
Six Word Story
He’s her tall drink of water.
Fear
“Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.” – Lucretius
Quote: Alfred North Whitehead
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Avoid Head Trash
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Reading Quote: Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. -Maya Angelou
Role Reversal
Sitting on the couch. Watching TV. Fall asleep. TV is now watching me. Wake up a short time later wondering, Did I miss anything?
Quote: Buddha ~ The Body
It Happens
Long ago, and far away, shit happened. Today, shit happens. Tomorrow too. And the next day, and the day after, etc., etc…..
Quote: Soren Kierkegaard ~ Life
Quote: Chaim Potok – Tea And Happiness
Quote: Charles Bukowski
Quote: Ivan Turgenev
“Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.” -Ivan Turgenev
No Fear Of Death ~ Epicurus
Quote: Democritus – Empty Space
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus
Chaos
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Fixation
Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
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One Sentence Fiction
Jim is having a wonderful conversation with the bathroom mirror.
Quote: Albert Camus
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? -Albert Camus
Quote: Harvey Mackay, Time Is Free
Quote: Hermann Hesse, To Hold Our Tongues
“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all […]
Reading A Book
Quote: Edgar Allan Poe, Story Writers
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. -Edgar Allan Poe
Quote: Stephen King, Writing
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. -Stephen King
Quote: Elie Wiesel, Indifference
Quote: Pete Seeger, Small Villages
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. ~Pete Seeger
Quote: Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Human Soul
Mark Twain Quotation
Confucius Quotation: Beauty
Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka
Bob Dylan Quotation: The Human Mind
One Sentence Fiction
As she was leaving, he said to her, “naked or clothed, I still love you, and that will never change.”
Francis Bacon Quotation
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ~Francis Bacon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotation
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herbert Prochnow Quotation
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ~Herbert Prochnow
What We See
Carl Sagan Quotation
The Beatles
Quote: Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ~Hermann Hesse
