QUOTABLES

 

I thought I would drop another page of choice words from my betters. worth pondering*...................

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people    Thomas Mann

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Madame: Winston, you are drunk.

Churchill: Madame you are ugly

Madame: Winston, you are very drunk.

Churchill: You are very ugly…but tomorrow I shall be sober.

 I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have. August Wilson

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. Orson Welles

The "leap of faith," that faith is not possible without doubt. One must doubt the existence of God to have faith in the existence of God. Belief without doubt is just credulity. Soren Kierkegaard

The haves have not what all the have-nots have so
much of having is the need to have.        Samuel Hazo

My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky

Herman Hesse -   The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. -Robert King Merton, sociologist (4 Jul 1910-2003)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -Henry David Thoreau,

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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. -Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947) 

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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. Raymond Chandler

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I said if he had stolen a railroad, he would be a United States Senator. Mother Jones

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury.

For the first time in 4 billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of wind in the night reeds.Loren Eisley

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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -Robert M. Pirsig,

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu

The best poety, when you read it, you hear two voices, the poets and your own voice.C.K. Williams

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. -Marianne Moore, poet

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 24 Nov 1961) 

The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. -Norman Angell

If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? … A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief Franz Kafka

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity. -Sydney J. Harris, journalist (14 Sep 1917-1986)

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976)

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Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, / I want to tie the two arms together, / And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. -Robert Bly, poet (b. 23 Dec 1926)

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Edward Albee said: "I take pretty good care of myself, and I have no enthusiasm whatever about dying. I think it's a terrible waste of time, and I don't want to participate in it."

 If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels. Tennessee Williams 

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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin

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The key to being a good manager is keeping those who hate me away from those still undecided.  Casey Stengel 

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There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Gandhi

That’s enough….Norm Levine