January 2011
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“I’ve been thinking Hobbes —”
“On a weekend?”...”
– Calvin & Hobbbes
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“There’s so much truly putrid advertising out there it’s...”
– Jef I. Richards
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“Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and...”
– Louis L’Amour
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“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more...”
– Pablo Picasso
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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have...”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
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“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
– Dorothy Parker
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“Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if...”
– Wendell Berry
Wearing Thin
your sharp tongue is to me like a jagged fingernail caught on the thread that knits my soul unraveling my self-worth until it is but a pile of tattered frustration and I am naked before your critical eye
(s.Rae, Jan. ‘02)
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“I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I...”
– ~Sheila Kaye-Smith
Very well, thirty - you win this round.
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“Look there she goes that girl is strange, no question
Dazed and distracted,...”
– Beauty & the Beast
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“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear...”
– Fulton Oursler
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“When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken...”
– John Wesley
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“The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future...”
– Blaise Pascal
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“There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as...”
– James Thurber
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“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the...”
– Ecclesiastes 9:11
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“They make it look so easy, connecting with another human being. It’s like no one...”
– Dexter Morgan (via youaresocrispy)