A Pondering Mind
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Katharine Hepburn Quote
Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ~ Katharine Hepburn Continue reading
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I don’t miss anything about the 1960s ~ Grace Slick, Singer-songwriter
“I don’t miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It’s like asking, ‘Do you miss the fourth grade?’ I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don’t want to do it again.” ~ Grace Slick – Born October 30, 1939 Continue reading
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To Hold Our Tongues ~ Hermann Hesse
“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 Continue reading
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So
So its been 6 1/5 months have passed since I was diagnosed a type 2 diabetic I have made great strides by sticking to the plan(s) and it paid off I could’ve been one of those who gave up and drove off the deep end but didn’t as I want to live a healthy life Continue reading
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Enthusiast In Life ~ Roald Dahl
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The Mind Of A Writer ~ Robert De Niro
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.” ~ Robert De Niro Continue reading
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Leonard Cohen Poem
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in. ~Leonard Cohen Continue reading
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Our Journey Begins ~ Lulu
Born: November 3, 1948 Continue reading
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Loneliness Was A Reality ~ Stephen King
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he’s alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also Continue reading
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Going To The Cinema ~ Federico Fellini
“Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.” ~ Federico Fellini Continue reading
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Music Quote
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River Of Dreams ~ Billy Joel
“We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.” ~ Billy Joel Continue reading
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I’m Still Learning About Music ~ Tony Bennett
“I’m still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.” ~ Tony Bennett Continue reading
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Writing Slowly With Revisions ~ Jack Kerouac
“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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The Beat Generation ~ Jack Kerouac
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.” ~ Jack Continue reading
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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People Know What They Do ~ Michel Foucault
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ~ Michel Foucault Continue reading
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Accept The Obvious
“The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.” ~ Dick Gregory Continue reading
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The Secret To Happiness ~ Bertrand Russell
“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.” ~ Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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Emily Dickinson Poem
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. ~Emily Dickinson, “A Word is Dead Continue reading
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Caffeine Use ~ Greg Egan
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ~Greg Egan, “Distress” Continue reading
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Controlling The Mind ~ Edward Bernays
“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are Continue reading
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Voltaire Quote
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. -Voltaire Continue reading
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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: Lie
“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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Edward R. Murrow Quote
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” ~ Edward R. Murrow Continue reading
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Emotion
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~ Robert Frost Continue reading
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote: Wisdom
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Ray Bradbury Quote: Television
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. ~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun Continue reading
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The Universe ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. ~Neil deGrasse Tyson Continue reading
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Bob Dylan ~ Times
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin’ And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin’ ~Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin Continue reading
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Intelligence Test
An Intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. –Lawrence J. Peter Continue reading
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Anne Frank Quote: Beauty
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. –Anne Frank Continue reading
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Black Cat ~ Groucho Marx
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ~ Groucho Marx Continue reading
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George Carlin Quote: Odd Feeling
“You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.” ~ George Carlin Continue reading
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Edwin Way Teale Quote: Autumn
“For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.” ~ Edwin Way Teale Continue reading
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Aeschylus Quote: Happiness
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. -Aeschylus 525 BC – 456 BC Ancient Greek Dramatist Continue reading
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Jean de la Bruyere Quote: Three Events
There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscience of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. -Jean de la Bruyere French Philosopher Continue reading
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George Cooper, October’s Party
October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came– The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band. -George Cooper, October’s Party Continue reading
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Miles Davis Quote: Music Is
“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis Continue reading
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One Of Those
its one of those dank glum gloomy rainy type of day just make the best of it Continue reading
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True Wisdom
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates Continue reading
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Mad Ones ~ Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Power ~ Gregory Corso
“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.” ~ Gregory Corso Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac Quote: Life
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Charlie Parker – Master The Music
“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.” ~ Charlie Parker Continue reading
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Christina Rossetti Poem: Changing Seasons
“January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is Continue reading
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Ambrose Bierce Quote
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce Continue reading
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John Burroughs Quote
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” ~ John Burroughs Continue reading
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Mother Earth ~ Mitchell Burgess
“If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on Continue reading
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A Note About Me
There are some things in life I do not care to talk about, and that is religion. I am not religious, and i haven’t been for quite a long time. I don’t like it, when certain people try to talk about it, and when they do, I walk away. Also, there are religious bloggers who Continue reading
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Life ~ Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. -Isaac Asimov Continue reading
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Autumnal Winds
Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods. ~William Wordsworth Continue reading
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Autumn ~ French Proverb
Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb Continue reading
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Autumn ~ Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus Continue reading
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John Donne ~ Autumn
No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face…. ~John Donne, “Elegy IX: The Autumnal” Continue reading
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Walter Lippmann ~ Wisdom Quote
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” ~ Walter Lippmann Continue reading
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Books Are The Perfect Entertainment ~ Stephen King
Born: September 21, 1947 Continue reading
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Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading
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Matsuo Basho Quote
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho Continue reading
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Carl Sagan Quote
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan Continue reading
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John W. Fellows ~ Poem
I want to hear the simmer Of the old coffee pot; I want to hear it hummin’ When it’d gettin’ good and hot; I want to see the vapor rise, Like incense in the room, And float about a-fillin’ Every corner with perfume. ~John W. Fellows, “The Old Coffee Pot,” in The People’s Home Journal, Continue reading
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Real Wisdom ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.” ~ Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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Plutarch Quote: Change
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch Continue reading
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Go To The People ~ Lao Tzu
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