“When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
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“Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.” — Donald Barthelme, "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,," The Newyorker (01973-05-18)
#BOTD #DonaldBarthelme #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Life #Death
"socialism…was symbolised by the red ties we wore." - H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli
“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.” — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
#TomRobbins #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Pedantry
“We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.” — Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
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Clermont-Ferrand Festival
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Welcome to Clermont!
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“If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.” — John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
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“Unfortunately for its inhabitants, one of the more absurd theories of the universe turns out to be true: Nothing necessarily exists unless something else is looking at it. Everything unobserved is a fuzzy mass of possibilities. We look at it and decide.” — Peter Welch, Noware
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“There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
#JohnSteinbeck #Steinbeck #Quote #Quotation #QOTD #Habit #ComfortZone #Familiarity
“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.” — James Thurber, "On The Brink of Was," The New Yorker (01958-12-07)
#JamesThurber #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Art…
“Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both…
“He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.” — Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
#BOTD #JosephCampbell #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Knowledge
“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.” — Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
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Froud and Stouf
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“Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies—never.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection (1994)
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Victor Sackville
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Rikardo Druškić - You Can Only See Well With Your Heart
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“It is wonderful to observe what airs of superiority fools and knaves, with large possessions, give themselves above men of the greatest merit in poverty.” — David Hume, “Of Impudence and Modesty,” Essays, Moral and Political
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(Often) moved about within the context of (a) reason. — Lawrence Weiner
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Continental
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“Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell.” —…
“I tell people that I've never been hurt by an honest question, and that's true: it's a cruel opinion that hurts, not a question.” — Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw
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“Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.” — Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
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“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — hate's so easy compared.” — Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.” — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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