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Wed 6 Mar 2024

Timeless

Posted by PJ under growing up, quote of the day, that which abides
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Random quote of the day:

“This is the only real maturity there is: the maturity of struggling beyond the physical world and discovering that you’re also at home somewhere else. As for immaturity, that’s when we grow old and empty because we’ve missed the opportunities life always brings for making conscious contact with the timeless.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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Fri 27 May 2022

Illusions

Posted by PJ under growing up, illusion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I am growing up…I am losing my illusions, perhaps to acquire new ones.”

—Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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Thu 17 Mar 2022

Currents

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Random quote of the day:

“There’s things that move a man. Like currents of water inside. Things he can’t help….Getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”

—Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Tue 9 Jan 2018

Screwed

Posted by PJ under growing up, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“As a kid, I asked ‘If adults are so smart then why is everything screwed up?’ As an adult, I still ask that question.”

—Sherman Alexie, Twitterfeed, June 20, 2013

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Thu 25 May 2017

Pan, Peter Pan

Posted by PJ under aging, growing up, immortality, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Undergraduate consciousness rests in part on a set of careless assumptions about being immortal. The elitism and cruelty often found in college humor arises from this belief in one’s own Exemption, not only from time and death, but somehow from the demands of life as well.”

—Thomas Pynchon, Introduction, 1983 ed. of Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me

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Thu 31 Mar 2016

Endless childhood

Posted by PJ under childhood, growing up, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for—if you are honest—you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.”

—P. L. Travers, quoted in Sticks and Stones by Jack Zipes

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Thu 1 Oct 2015

Recovered

Posted by PJ under art, genius, growing up, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Genius is only childhood recovered at will, childhood now gifted to express itself with the faculties of manhood and with the analytic mind that allows him to give order to the heap of unwittingly hoarded material.”

—Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

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Mon 20 Jul 2015

Sing how you want to

Posted by PJ under growing up, quote of the day, voice
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Random quote of the day:

“You kind of evolve into your voice. Or maybe your voice is out there, waiting for you to grow up.”

—Tom Waits, interview, National Public Radio, March 1, 2011

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Mon 16 Jun 2014

Puer aeternus

Posted by PJ under growing up, knowledge, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

—Cicero, M. Tulli Ciceronis Ad M. Brutum Orator

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Mon 27 Jan 2014

The achieve of; the mastery of the thing

Posted by PJ under art, growing up, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“The main thing now is not to paint precociously but to be, or at least become, an individual. The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.”

—Paul Klee, diary entry, June 3, 1902

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