11-06-2021, 01:19 PM | #4051 |
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"Never underestimate the public's ability to lose interest in something that involves reading."
Cathal Kelly in the Globe and Mail commenting on the difference in public outrage between watching video of ex-NBA owner Sterling being racist and reading hearsay accounts of current NBA-owner Sarver being racist. |
11-09-2021, 06:02 AM | #4052 | |
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11-11-2021, 10:32 AM | #4053 |
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Happy Birthday to Kurt Vonnegut!
“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five |
11-18-2021, 10:02 AM | #4054 |
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"Potatoes were, for some reason, more prone to fits of random magic than most vegetables. It would take a remarkable magic to affect turnips or kale. No one bothered planting eggplants—they would run into the woods or fly away on leafy kites the instant your back was turned."
T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride |
11-20-2021, 04:27 PM | #4055 | |
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11-22-2021, 12:34 PM | #4056 |
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“The Buddha said that responding to email and Twitter is like sweeping the sands from the banks of the Ganges River.” “The Buddha said that?” “Well, maybe not. But the point remains the same. Some tasks are impossible, even if you are a Buddha. Even if you have eleven heads and a thousand arms.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel |
11-25-2021, 11:26 AM | #4057 |
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"I think we’ll have a roast of squash, full of flavor, nothing posh I think we’ll have a soup of greens with warm and toasty bread A meal of oats to warm the heart, I think would make a lovely start And jugs of wine with berries spiced the prefect shade of red."
From Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Durham Happy Thanksgiving! |
12-04-2021, 01:39 PM | #4058 | |
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12-15-2021, 09:50 AM | #4059 | |
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12-22-2021, 02:03 PM | #4062 |
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"There are many different variations on the 'stoned ape' hypothesis." From Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
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Quarter of the way through Steve Martin's Born Standing Up there are already so many wonderful demonstrations of his skill with words, but this one serves as a good example, for making me laugh out loud.
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01-07-2022, 02:15 PM | #4064 |
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“What an age! Every one is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also, eaten up by the sun and the wind. I don't know where I get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end.”
George Sand to Gustave Flaubert June 1870 |
01-19-2022, 07:40 PM | #4065 |
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"Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? I’ve heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don’t, that’s sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! I don’t hear those idiot bastards in your parlor talking about it. God, Millie, don’t you see? An hour a day, two hours, with these books, and maybe...”
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