Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soils in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. Ludwig van Beethoven
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Direction
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going in the opposite direction in this too-big world. ~ Jack Kerouac
Details are the Life of Prose. ~Jack Kerouac
The Queens English
You know, I do speak the Queens English. It’s just the wrong Queens that’s all. It’s over the 59th Street Bridge. It’s not over the Atlantic Ocean. ~ Cyndi Lauper
The Shadowy Tip Of Reality
“This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you’re on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable…Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you’re entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop TheContinue reading “The Shadowy Tip Of Reality”
The Key Of Imagination
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.” ~ Rod Serling The Twilight Zone (televisionContinue reading “The Key Of Imagination”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” ~ George Orwell
Summer
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. ~ George R. R. Martin
“We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves” ~ Jim Morrison
Honesty
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.” ~Abraham Lincoln
To Much
“I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’” ~ Jim Rohn
Traveling
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
Poor People
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” ~ Carl Jung
“Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.” ~Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell, Actress, 1907-1976
Being Useless
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.” ~ Sylvia Plath
Success
“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.” ~ John Madden, A former coach of the Oakland Raiders
“Don’t worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.” ~John Madden
“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.” ~John Burroughs
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” ~John Burroughs
John Burroughs, Essayist, 1837-1921
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. ~Paul Theroux
Night Time
Night time is really the best time to work. All there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine Ohara
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” ~Martin Heidegger
“Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.” ~Martin Heidegger
Pleasure Of Reading
Story Writers
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. Edgar Allan Poe
The Wise Man
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Coffee And Tea
“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.” ~ William E. Gladstone, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom
Self-Expression
“To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear.” ~ Marc Jacobs, Fashion designer
The Most Beautiful Things
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Steinbeck
Pursuit Of Money
“In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.” ~ John Rawls, Philosopher, 1921 – 2002
Beautiful insane in the rain. ~Jack Kerouac
Some walks you have to take alone. ~Suzanne Collins
“Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They’ll do anything to win a case.” ~Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher, 1748 – 1832
Writing Is …
Reading List
“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.” ~David Hume
Bricks
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” ~ Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher, 1925 – 1995
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.” ~Baruch Spinoza
Two Ways To Be Fooled
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Words
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. ~ Blaise Pascal
The Poor
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist. ~Jean Baudrillard
More And More Information
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. ~ Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, Born: June 27, 1929 – Died: March 6, 2007
Dream Beings
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~Jack Kerouac
“If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell.” ~David Cook
David Cook, Singer-songwriter
“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome, Writer, Born: May 2, 1859 – Died: June 14, 1927
Essentials To Happiness
Joseph Addison, Essayist, Born: May 1, 1672 – Died: June 17, 1719
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ~Margaret Mead
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. ~Haruki Murakami
Falling In Love
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six andContinue reading “Falling In Love”
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. ~Anne Tyler
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. ~Jim Morrison
Freedom Of Choice
“When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
“You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.” ~ Jay Leno
Dogs Are Leaders
Dogs are leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them is making poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge. ~Jerry Seinfeld
Writing Is A Solitary Business
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there. ~Paul Auster
Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life. ~Charles Lamb
I am a cage, in search of a bird. ~Franz Kafka
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde
Art Quote
One eye sees, the other feels. ~Paul Klee
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. ~Jack Kerouac
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~Jack Kerouac
Books are a narcotic. ~Franz Kafka
We live for books. ~Umberto Eco
Change
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it. ~Audrey Hepburn
Living
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. ~Albert Camus
Climbing Out Of Bed
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. ~Charles Bukowski
Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
Treasured Wealth
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau
Books. Cats. Life is good. ~Edward Gorey
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~Oscar Wilde
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” ~ Helen Keller
“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” ~ Al Neuharth
Al Neuharth, Author, Born: March 22, 1924 – Died: April 19, 2013
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. ~Albert Camus
“Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.” ~ Earl Wilson
Earl Wilson, MLB pitcher, Born: October 2, 1934 – Died: April 23, 2005
Mostly it is loss which teaches us the worth things. ~Arthur Schopenauer
Senseless To Think Of Complaining
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are. `~Jean-Paul Sartre
A Common Question
“The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?” ~ Jeff Bezos
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. ~Iris Murdoch
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher, Born: April 22, 1724 – Died: February 12, 1804
Three Great Things
The three great things of life are: good health; work, and a philosophy of life. ~Jack London
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~Bertrand Russell
People
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do rather than what they say. ~Rene Descartes
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ~Jack Kerouac
Wherever you are, it’s the place you need to be. ~Maxime Lagace
Shoes
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.” ~ John Locke
Truth exists; only lies are invented. ~Georges Braque
Georges Braque, Painter, Born: May 13, 1882 – Died: August 31, 1963
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” ~Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow, Novelist ~ Born: April 22, 1873 – Died: November 21, 1945
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
All The Books We Own
“It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
“Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ~ Ralph Ellison
Life After Death
“The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher ~ 1889 – 1951
A Pondering Mind 