"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all."
--Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” --Samuel Johnson
"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."
--Dave Barry, “Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn”
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
-Kahlil Gibran
-Kahlil Gibran
"This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labors to others,
Hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
Have patience and indulgence toward the people,
Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
Or to any man or number of men,
Go freely with powerful uneducated persons,
And with the young and with the mothers of families,
Read these leaves in the open air,
Every season of every year of your life,
Reexamine all you have been told,
At school at church or in any book,
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
And your very flesh shall be a great poem,
And have the richest fluency not only in its words,
But in the silent lines of its lips and face,
And between the lashes of your eyes,
And in every motion and joint of your body."
-WaltWhitman
"Silence is so accurate."
— Mark Rothko
"All good books have one thing in common- they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you've read one of them you will feel that all that happened, happened to you and it belongs to you forever: the happiness and unhapiness, the good and evil, ecstasy and sorrow, the food, wine, beds, people and weather. If you can give that to a reader, then you're a writer."
--Ernest Hemingway
"He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness."
— Martin Amis
"Creativity and inspiration are when you see an accident and recognize its value.”
-Geoff Nicholson, inventor of post-it notes
-Geoff Nicholson, inventor of post-it notes
"Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever the dream might be."
--The Patriot, Pearl S. Buck
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
--C.S. Lewis
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Just wanted to let you know that seeing you've put up a new blog post has a similar effect on me to the one Christmas had when I was little - a kind of *squee* of the soul. I thought I should say thanks. :)
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