May 30, 2012
"The more one judges, the less one loves."

Honoré de Balzac

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May 28, 2012
Write drunk. Edit sober. - Ernest Hemingway
The importance of being Ernest.

Write drunk. Edit sober. - Ernest Hemingway

The importance of being Ernest.

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May 27, 2012
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

— Margaret Atwood

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May 25, 2012
Joseph Heller
Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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May 25, 2012
njwight:

“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

njwight:

“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 2012
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The often-quoted author was born on this day in 1803.

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May 23, 2012
"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more."

Robert Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land

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May 22, 2012
"I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure, the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself, and take my fill of ambrosia."

— Claudius Ptolemy, AD 150

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May 21, 2012
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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May 15, 2012
"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful."

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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May 14, 2012
"After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart’s impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble."

Richard Russo

Empire Falls

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May 13, 2012
"The past is never where you think you left it."

— Katherine Anne Porter

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