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Mon 20 Jan 2014

Just do it

Posted by PJ under art, feelings, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.”

—G. K. Chesterton, “On the Wit of Whistler,” Heretics

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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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Sun 19 Jan 2014

Self-portrait with snake goddess

Posted by PJ under art, me, photography
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Please note the dust on the shelf. That is an important accuracy in any of my self-portraits. In this case, the “art” tag should definitely be in quotes.

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Fri 17 Jan 2014

Now you see me, now you don’t

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

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

—Epicurus, letter to Menoeceus, tr. Robert Drew Hicks

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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 16 Jan 2014

The stars

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, stars, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: ‘God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don’t do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.’ So I really don’t think in the long sense.”

—Marlon Brando, New York Times, July 2, 2004

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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 8 Jan 2014

The road

Posted by PJ under novels, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Novels are about people who have to move forward because they can’t go back.”

—Richard Peck, Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young

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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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Mon 6 Jan 2014

Mythistory

Posted by PJ under history, myth, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“History is a mythical variant which we have chosen to take literally.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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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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Fri 3 Jan 2014

Public/personal

Posted by PJ under internal and external, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day: 

“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.”

—George Orwell, “Why I Write”

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Thu 2 Jan 2014

The ‘burbs

Posted by PJ under change, outsider, quote of the day, time
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Random quote of the day:

“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.”

—Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

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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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