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Thu 25 May 2023

Disagreeable

Posted by PJ under disagreeable, heaven, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

—Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 16 Mar 2018

Morning

Posted by PJ under heaven, morning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The morning’s the size of heaven.
What will you do with it?”

—Mark Doty, “Long Point Light”

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 29 Jun 2017

Fragile heat

Posted by PJ under heaven, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“All I know of heaven is the fragile heat between two bodies.”

—Traci Brimhall, Requiem with Coal, Butterflies, and Terrible Angels

You can read the full poem here:
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/14144

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 14 Mar 2017

Frail

Posted by PJ under existence, heaven, hell, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”

—Blaise Pascal, Discours sur les passions de l’amour

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 3 Feb 2015

Heaven and hell

Posted by PJ under heaven, hell, quote of the day, travel
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Random quote of the day: 

“Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.”

—Mark Twain, letter to W. D. Howells, 20 May 1891

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 20 Jun 2013

Dog’s God

Posted by PJ under dogs, heaven, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.”

—Mark Twain, letter to W. D. Howells, April 2, 1899

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Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 17 Aug 2011

I Myself am Heav’n and Hell

Posted by PJ under heaven, hell, quote of the day, soul, the self
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self-place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.”

—Mephistopheles (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus)

 

Which reminds me of a famous Edward FitzGerald translation of this Omar Khayyám’s quatrain:

 

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return’d to me,
And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell”

 

…which, to add more ingredients to today’s literary soup, you may remember was used so effectively in The Picture of Dorian Gray.  

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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