Wed 29 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, renewal, sunrise
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Random quote of the day:
“The sun is new
again, all day.
—Heraclitus, Fragment 32 (tr. Brooks Haxton)
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Tue 28 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under decisions, money, movies, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Every bad decision I’ve made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects, and you don’t turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it’s all going to end. I made ‘Cop III’ because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert’s thumb up my ass.”
—Eddie Murphy, interview, Newsweek, June 30, 1996
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Mon 27 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the human condition, time, wanting
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Random quote of the day:
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Thu 23 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under liminality, quote of the day, thin places
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Random quote of the day:
“There are places…which are so thin that you meet yourself in the still point. Like the lifting of the silky veil on Samhain, you’re held in the space in between. No matter the past, the present or what is yet to come. There’s nothing you can do but listen for the gap in the silence, the change in the wind. The right moment, when it comes, calls you up, up; calls you into a wind that lifts you. A wind that carries you with it, on its sails.
—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
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Wed 22 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under art, creation, quote of the day, worldbuilding, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me—the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
—Anais Nin, diary, February 1954
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Tue 21 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under childhood, darkness, memories, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from the surrounding darkness.
—Carson McCullers, “The Orphanage,” Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
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Thu 16 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under black lives matter, poetry, quote of the day, racism, slavery
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Random quote of the day:
“Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
Their colour is a diabolic die.
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
—Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” 1773
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Tue 14 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under health, morning, quote of the day, sleep
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Random quote of the day:
“DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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Mon 13 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under math, poetry, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
—Gustav Flaubert, letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853
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Wed 8 Mar 2023
Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:
“A true work of art in no way depends for its justification on its seeming connections with the place that many call the real world and that I call the visible world.
—Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows
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