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another day of strong gusty winds single digit wind chill feeling and lots of icy sidewalks and pathways to deal with the past day or so late this morning the city finally scraped down and salted the sidewalks …. winter …. gotta love it Continue reading
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no doubt about it its windy I mean honest to goodness wind the kind that will take your hat for a long flight off your head yep that kind of wind Continue reading
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“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That’s the goal.” – James Baldwin Continue reading
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‘Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.” – Anton Chekhov Continue reading
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I started reading 4 3 2 1, a 930 page book by the late Paul Auster. I know its a slog, but I like what I have read so far. Wish me luck. All kidding aside, I will finish it. Continue reading
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“The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.” – Rene Descartes Continue reading
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“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.” – G. K. Chesterton Continue reading
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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Continue reading
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“If your in trouble and hurt or need, go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help, the only ones.” – John Steinbeck Continue reading
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“Leave me alone at night with my books. Don’t complicate the world for me. I want it uncomplicated. And above all, leave me alone with my books at night.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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“There’s always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.” – Charles Bukowski Continue reading
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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Friedrich Nietzche Continue reading
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“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.” – Marcus Aurelius Continue reading
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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” – Virginia Woolf Continue reading
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In a world increasingly defined by complexity and noise, how can we cultivate an appreciation for :”bare things” and simple moments without losing sight of the broader dynamics that shape our lives? – Virginia Woolf Continue reading
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“How much better is silence, the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, things in themselves, myself being myself.” – Virginia Woolf Continue reading
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“It’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.” – Aldous Huxley Continue reading
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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov Continue reading
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“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” – Buddha Continue reading
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Damn head cold is kicking the shit out of me, yet the good thing is that I haven’t lost the taste for coffee, and I still have an appetite, which is a good thing. Continue reading
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“Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.” – Thomas Aquinas Continue reading
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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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Spent a good amount of time on the couch today. Why is that? I’ve been dealing with a head cold, which I don’t get them as. I used to get. Anyways, no fever and/or aches and pains. In other news, forgetting the cold I’m feeling good and just getting on with life. Continue reading
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust Continue reading
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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” – Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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“Man is a rational – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, nut so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it.” – Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” – Samuel Butler Continue reading
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“I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I… Continue reading
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“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” – Margaret Atwood Continue reading
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“There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.” – John Steinbeck Continue reading
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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal between a dog and a man.” – Mark Twain Continue reading
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“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Viktor Frankl Continue reading
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” – Aldous Huxley Continue reading
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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” – Margaret Atwood Continue reading
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“I may not have been sure about what did really interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.” – Albert Camus Continue reading
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“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” – James Madison Continue reading
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“The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimize that action.” – Zadie Smith Continue reading
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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. – Zadie Smith Continue reading
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“The only public good is that which assures the private good of the citizens.” – Simone de Beauvoir Continue reading
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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” – Euripides Continue reading
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“With freedom of the press, nations are not sure of going toward justice and peace. But without it, they are sure of not going there.” – Albert Camus Continue reading
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“I postpone death by living, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” – Anais Nin Continue reading
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H. P. Lovecraft Continue reading
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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” – Thomas Carlyle Continue reading
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“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be trusted.” – George MacDonald Continue reading
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” -Carl Rogers Continue reading
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” -Charles Bukowski Continue reading
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” -Oscar Wilde Continue reading
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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” -Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” Continue reading
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“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the… Continue reading
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“If you’re lonely when your alone, you’re in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre Continue reading
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“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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the weather here has been a rain filled past couple of days. bought a new rain jacket with a hood, and feels very comfortable and so it a ok to go for walks. made out the mail-in ballot and dropped it off at the drop box outside city hall. in the meantime, been reading short… Continue reading
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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” -Ludwig van Beethoven Continue reading
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“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you can possibly can. You will get an enormous reward.… Continue reading
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the first Sunday of the month I did a load of laundry it was the highlight of my day…seriously Continue reading
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What is your favorite hobby or pastime? Reading books. A good way to keep the mind sharp and at my age, it’s a good thing. Continue reading
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new day new month still around keeping busy lots of book reading and still pounding the pavement Continue reading
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“I think there are enormous obstacles to deep reading now. I think that the tyranny of the visual is a frightening thing.” –Harold Bloom Continue reading
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“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” -Oscar Wilde Continue reading
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“Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.” -Margaret Atwood Continue reading
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“The problem isn’t a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you’ve given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind.” -Bill Hicks Continue reading
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I walk with a purpose Walk to control the weight Walk to control the sugar Walk to air out the head Walk to relax the body I’ve been doing it for 6 years and the end result has been positive Continue reading
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Monday 3:05 pm outside it is getting dark and off in the distance the low rumble of thunder ah music to my ears Continue reading
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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” –Joan Didion Continue reading
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“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day… Continue reading
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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. -Sylvia Plath Continue reading
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Sundays are made for doing whatever the hell you feel like doing including not doing a damn thing Continue reading
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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery Continue reading
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went out early this morning and when I stepped outside bam… the heat hit me right away and this was in the shade…the air was heavy that I didn’t want to be out in it I’m so done with this steamy sticky weather Continue reading
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can’t think of anything to write about it’s just one of those days Continue reading
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well I’ll be a new month is upon us it seemed the 4th of July was just a day or two ago but it seems like it was a blur which seems to be a constant thing Continue reading
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thinking thinking thinking thinking thinking about absolutely positively nothing Continue reading
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so damn humid I feel like a wreck so tired of this damn weather Continue reading
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the day is getting old nothing exciting to tell just the same old same old its fine and dandy with me Continue reading
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“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me… Continue reading
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“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we’ve never met, living lives we couldn’t possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character’s skin.” ~ Ann Patchett Continue reading
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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith Continue reading
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coming into the stretch run of the month of July only six days remain to think there is only five months remaining then a new year will be upon us depressing nah ho=hum maybe or so be it Continue reading
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“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” ~ Russell Baker Continue reading
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“We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.” ~ Frederick Lenz Continue reading
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With this being Sunday I haven’t a clue as to what I want to say or pass along With that said I wish you all a good night or morning wherever you are Continue reading
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard Continue reading
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why do some people walk around with a look on their faces that somebody pissed in their coffee just asking Continue reading
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If you are reading this post as I know you are Then, I thank you for stopping by and reading it Continue reading
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“I think it’s dangerous to think you know what you’re writing. I usually don’t know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing… Continue reading
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“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with… Continue reading
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I’ve been on sort of a book buying binge on Amazon. The books that I have purchased are all by one writer: Jay McInerney. I’ve been reading his books back in the 1970s on, and now I am back to buying his books again. So, I already got two of books, and 4 more on… Continue reading
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“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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“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize your already in heaven now.” -Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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The heat finally caught up with me today Ended up crashing on the couch and out for the count It’s the fucking sticky air that I don’t like dealing with Never have Never will Maybe as I got older I would get use to it but no dice I should have been born an Eskimo… Continue reading
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Big pharmaceutical television ads are for the most part are pathetic. Continue reading
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“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There’s nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life’s compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can… Continue reading
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