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Thu 30 Oct 2014

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza

Posted by PJ under endings, happiness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“All happy endings have a leak in them somewhere.”

—Nina Fitzpatrick, Daimons

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Wed 29 Oct 2014

Mighty thews

Posted by PJ under process, progress, quote of the day, work
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Random quote of the day:

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.”

—Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography

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Tue 28 Oct 2014

Ponder

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

“The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies.”

—Nicholas Carr, The Shallows

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Mon 27 Oct 2014

Stony certainty

Posted by PJ under certainty, quote of the day, stones, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years,” I would think, “while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.” I was but the sum of my emotions, and the Other in me was the timeless, imperishable stone.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Fri 24 Oct 2014

Plissken

Posted by PJ under aphorisms, character, proverb, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day: 

“A serpent changes his skin but not his fangs.”

—Russian saying

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Thu 23 Oct 2014

Turning back

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

“Modern intelligence is in utter confusion. Knowledge has become so diffuse that the world and the mind have lost all point of reference. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. But the most amazing things are the admonitions to ‘turn backward.’ Return to the Middle Ages, to primitive mentality, to the soil, to religion, to the arsenal of worn-out solutions. To grant a shadow of efficacy to those panaceas, we should have to act as if our acquired knowledge had ceased to exist, as if we had learned nothing, and pretend in short to erase what is inerasable.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Wed 22 Oct 2014

Voice

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

“You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.”

—Billy Collins, quoted in Ben Yagoda, The Sound on the Page

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Thu 16 Oct 2014

Mystery meat

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

“If…Descartes…had kept a poodle, the history of philosophy would have been different. The poodle would have taught Descartes that contrary to his doctrine, animals are not machines, and hence the human body is not a machine, forever separated from the mind…”

—Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up

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Wed 15 Oct 2014

Dog god

Posted by PJ under daimons and demons, dogs, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The Daimon of dogs . . . is the practice of devotion.”

—Nina Fitzpatrick, Daimons

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Tue 14 Oct 2014

Life story

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

“At first sight a man’s life is more interesting than his works. It constitutes an obstinate, taut whole. Unit of mind dominates. There is a single inspiration through all those years. He is the novel. To be rewritten, obviously.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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