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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery 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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“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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“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize your already in heaven now.” -Jack Kerouac 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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“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.” ~ John Berger Continue reading
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Quote / Yogi Berra
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Yogi Berra Continue reading
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Tuesday Morning Quote
“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.” ~ Chanakya Continue reading
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Storm Clouds
“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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Summer Reading
“I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.” ~ Margaret Haddix Continue reading
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Friday’s Quote
“Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It’s a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or… Continue reading
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Tonight Show
“This is The Tonight Show. I can’t tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.” ~ Steve Allen He said this back in the 1950s, and it still is an NBC staple… Continue reading
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July
“Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.” ~ Sara Coleridge Continue reading
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Friday’s Quote
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” ~ Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Saturday Evening Quote
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen Continue reading
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Sunday Evening Quote
“If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.” ~ Bill Moyers Continue reading
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Wednesday Evening Quote
“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe.… Continue reading
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Monday’s Quote
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” ~ John Lennon Continue reading
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Climate-Change Deniers
“The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.” ~ Johann Hari Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Quote
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in… Continue reading
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