Memory
Memory is more than a dustbin of time, stuffed with yesterday’s trash. Rather, memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them. ~Hal Boyle, 1971
Hypocrite
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~Abraham Lincoln
Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Writing
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Quote Can Be Applied To the Current One In Washington
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
~Gore Vidal
Henry David Thoreau
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau
Summer
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Television
Theater is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.
~Author Unknown
Writing
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
~Francis Bacon
Health Care….
America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
-Walter Cronkite
Philosophical Quote
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn
A Perfect Summer Day….
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
-James Dent
Albert Camus On Ethics
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Weather
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Summertime…
Summertime is always the best of what might be.
-Charles Bowden
Beauty….
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace Slick
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
-Grace Slick
William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if
you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
-William S. Burroughs
Internet
Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation.
-Paul Carvel
Learning
When one teaches, two learn.
-Robert Heinlein
Pain…
Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
-Haruki Murakami
Stephen King On Imagination
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little
bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away
from the world. The more closed in you are, the
more you’re forced back on your own imagination.
-Stephen King
Franz Kafka
Books are a narcotic.
-Franz Kafka
