Archive for March, 2019

Random quote of the day:

“All art is autobiography; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

—Federico Fellini, The Atlantic, December 1965

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Random quote of the day:

“Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.”

—H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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Random quote of the day:

“Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people’s nonsense, repeat these words: not my circus, not my monkeys.”

—Polish proverb

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Random quote of the day:

“Life is magic. Magic is not life.”

—Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels

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Random quote of the day:

“Life is now, every moment, no matter if the world be full of death. Death triumphs only in the service of life.”

—Henry Miller, The World of Sex

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Random quote of the day:

“Memoir is the last place you’d expect to find the truth.”

—David Sedaris, interview, The New York Times, June 8, 2008

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Random quote of the day:

“It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

—Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

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Random quote of the day:

“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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Random quote of the day:

“Scars are tattoos with better stories.”

—Jonathan Carroll, Twitterfeed, June 5, 2014

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Random quote of the day:

“Whoever loves, let him flourish. Let him perish who knows not love. Let him perish twice over whoever forbids love.”

—Graffito from the House of Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii

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