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"How can you be with someone who loves you despite the best things about you?"
- Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

 Image via pastelhearts on Flickr.

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"I'll tell you one thing.  Men are bastards.  After about ten minutes, I wanted to cut my own penis off with a kitchen knife."
- Will, About a Boy

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"Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping."
- Jon Anderson

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"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting..."
- Louisa May Alcott

Image via Kathleen Habbley on Flickr

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"First we'll make snow angels for two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse cookie dough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle."
- Buddy, Elf

Image via paper pony on Flickr.

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"Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa."
- Bart, The Simpsons

 

Why yes, that is a Playmobil version of the Nativity. Image via Matthew Trisler.

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"Shall not this Child
(When we shall hear the bells of His amazing voice)
Conquer the winter of our hateful century?"
- Thomas Merton, "A Christmas Card" (1947)

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"I hope you two are aware that television is a tool of the imperialist oppressors and I'm only sitting here right now cause I'm eating."
- Melissa Klein, "An Illustration of a Typical Evening at the Klein-Lewis Residence," Inkling no. 2 (via)

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"I'm just gone with the wind and I'm home with the gin"
- Tech N9ne, "Low"

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"Well, it all seems so simple
And then it's pounding in your brain"
- The B-52s, "Too Much to Think About"

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"It takes no compromising to give people their rights.  It takes no money to respect the individual.  It takes no survey to remove repressions."
- Harvey Milk


Well, it's certainly about time.

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"I love when you're in cracked-out finals mode."
- Danielle

(Practicing for my Red Cross certification, Kate as victim)

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"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."
- Demetri Martin, Person

 

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"Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism."
- Richard C. Edgley, "Faith--the Choice is Yours" (via)

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"No one responded to my cries of 'ruh roh!'"
- ABE

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"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
- Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness

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"You need to change your standards of what's worthy of a text message.  You gotta ask yourself if this is something I need to know.  The answer's almost always no."
- Darryl, The Office ep 7.10

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"We need to understand that spirit is not conformed to a cathedral, an altar, or a practice. It's just there whenever we are able to connect with it."
- Elizabeth Roberts

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"You used to be much more...muchier.  You've lost your muchness."
- Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland (2010)

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"If I could do it, I'd do no writing at all here.  It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood, and iron..."
- James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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"Trust me, Father Sean needs [Radical Catholic Feminist] Eucharistic ministers...he just doesn't know it yet."
- JWal, after Mass yesterday

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"With the old handicrafts coming back into favor and
new ones constantly being rought forward,
a girl's life may be full of delightful employment."
- Lina and Adelia Beard, 1904 (via)

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"If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time."
- Art Buchwald
 

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"[That man] says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman.   Where did your Christ come from? …From God and a woman.  Man had nothing to do with it."
- Sojourner Truth, at the Women’s Rights Convention, 1851

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"It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on"
- Joni Mitchell, "River" (via)

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"Sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were."
- Joan, Mad Men 1.13

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"Big deal, you meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy--that doesn't count as revelation."
- Harper, Angels in America

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"There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with 4 rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person."
- Rumer Godden

Quote of the Day

"You know my code. Hoes before bros. Uteruses before duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries." 
 - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation