Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. ~ Alvar Aalto
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. ~ Alvar Aalto
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. ~ Henri Bergson
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - The Great Gatsby
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice - Polonius (Hamlet)
After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~ Aesop
anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did
From anyone lived in a pretty how town ~ E. E. Cummigs
A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song. ~ Maya Angelou
"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive or not."
Joan Didion
Joan Didion is one of those rare people I could have been a loyal friend to in spite of us being marked antithesis in thought. Wherever she saw degeneration, loss of value, the waning of america, I saw progress, possibilities, and the outcome of the strongest America to ever be known. And it's getting better.
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. ~ Albert Camus
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. ~ Pierre Bayle
“A solitary pawn spreads gloom across the chessboard.”
Mikhail Tal
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy.
Personally, I considered Hardy one of the most insane thinkers the moment I read him. And as I grew older, even more so. I'm not going to say why. I would not waste my time with the freak.Originally Posted by Sophia21
A town occupied by the enemy is like a maid who has lost her honour.
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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