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Tue 28 Feb 2017

Fueling up

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

“Memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.”

—Haruki Murakami, The Paris Review, Issue 170, Summer 2004

 

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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Mon 27 Feb 2017

Monkey

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

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.”

—Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

 

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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Fri 24 Feb 2017

Wrong and wrong and wrong

Posted by PJ under character, mistakes, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong.”

—Phillip Roth, American Pastoral

 

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 23 Feb 2017

Disappearing

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

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

—Dave Eggers, What Is the What

 

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 21 Feb 2017

Age of illusion

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

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to and end.”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory

 

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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Mon 20 Feb 2017

Imaginary gardens

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

“[Poetry is] imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

—Marianne Moore, “Poetry”

 

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 16 Feb 2017

Really most sincerely dead

Posted by PJ under death, honesty, human nature, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.”

—Mark Twain, Autobiography

 

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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Wed 15 Feb 2017

Heart home

Posted by PJ under hearts, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Come, live in my heart and pay no rent.”

—Samuel Lover, “Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent,” IV. Wooing and Winning

 

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 Feb 2017

Thorn

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

“My grandfather always said that living was like licking honey off a thorn.”

—attributed to Louis Adamic

 

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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Mon 13 Feb 2017

Passions

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

“In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.”

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 10, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

 

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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