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Wed 16 Jul 2014

False modesty

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

“I can paint false Picassos just as well as anybody.”

—Pablo Picasso, quoted in The New York Times obituary, April 9, 1973

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Tue 15 Jul 2014

Economical

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

“I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent of liberty and ease.”

—Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Bolingbroke, April 5, 1729

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Mon 14 Jul 2014

All heaven and earth

Posted by PJ under books, quote of the day, reading
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Random quote of the day:

“‘Lord!’ he said, ‘when you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.’”

—Christopher Morley, “Parnassus on Wheels”

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Fri 11 Jul 2014

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sleep, the world
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Random quote of the day: 

“Even sleeping men are doing the world’s business and helping it along.”

—Herakleitos, quoted in 7 Greeks Translated by Guy Davenport

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Thu 10 Jul 2014

Running with the pack

Posted by PJ under brain, mind, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll’s Alice might have phrased it: ‘You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.'”

—Sir Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis

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Wed 9 Jul 2014

Unknown Known

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

“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”

—Charles Caleb Cotton, Lacon

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Tue 8 Jul 2014

As said by someone who calls it “Poitry”

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

“Poetry, the arts, require feeling—on the part of the reader and observer, as well as the writer. Poetry is participatory, it requires, after feeling, response; and after response it demands movement, action.”

—Jan Freeman, “Breathe-in Experience, Breath-out Poetry”

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Thu 3 Jul 2014

Savoring

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

“If you want the deep experience of a book, if you want to internalise it, to mix an author’s ideas with your own and make it a more personal experience, you have to read it slowly.”

—John Miedema, author of Slow Reading, quoted in The Guardian, 15 July 2010

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Wed 2 Jul 2014

False accuracies

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

“We who were in our thirties then and are in our fifties now can’t be fooled by the false accuracies of clocks and calendars.

—attributed to James Thurber

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