Quote of the Day

"We were always very faithful to go to mass on Sunday, no matter how much alcohol we'd stolen the night before."
- Ricardo, on his early 20s

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"I'm in love with the world,
Through the eyes of a girl,
Who's still around the morning after."
- Elliott Smith, "Say Yes"

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"Last year was shitty, and this year I live in Paris.  So, if you're having a hard time, cross your fingers for luck and put your head down and work."
- Jordan Ferney (via)

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"Okay New York, you've legalized gay marriage.  Can you now please outlaw everybody peeing all over everything?"
- Michael Ian Black (via)

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"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
- Alan Alda

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"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own."
- Joyce Carol Oates

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"You smell like pine needles, and have a face like sunshine!"
- Becca, Bridesmaids

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"Welcome to the endless high-school
Reunion.  Welcome to past friends
And lovers, however kind or cruel.
Let's undervalue and unmend

The present.  Why can't we pretend
Every stage of life is the same?
Let's exhume, resume, and extend
Childhood.  Let's all play the games

That occupy the young.  Let fame
And shame intertwine.  Let one's search
For God become public domain.
Let church.com become our church.


Let's sign up, sign in, and confess
Here at the altar of loneliness."
- Sherman Alexie, "The Facebook Sonnet"

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"You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences."
- Constantine Peter Cavafy

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"It's not lavish but it's just so interesting!" 
- CE, re: five house property on waterfront

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"'Server migration' sounds like a long, lonely trudge through the barren tundra – but I trust A. will be adequately provisioned for this epic journey…" 
- MDD

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"From there Elisha went up to Bethel.  As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. 'Get out of here, baldy!' they said.  'Get out of here, baldy!'  He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord.  Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys."
- 2 Kings 2:23-24

(Google image search that stuff, right now.)

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"The grown-up dating world is like your haircut.  Sometimes, awkward triangles occur."
- Jack, 30 Rock 4.17

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"And after tea, we play Junior Scrabble.  We are the ideal nuclear family.  We eat together, we play improving board games instead of watching television, we smile a lot.  I fear that at any moment I may kill somebody."
- Nick Hornby

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"Nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our lord."
- Romans 8:39

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"C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire."*
- Edgar Degas

 *"It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary."

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"Pete, as part of some dubious Jesuit volunteer corps (cult?), is living with a half-dozen other conscripts in Sacramento, where he works for the Prisoners' Rights Union, editing a popular periodical called The California Prisoner."
- David Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Quote of the Day

"I gasp like sugar and spice."
- Tegan and Sara, "Paperback Head"

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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."
- Charles Mingus

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"Where and when does this 'real world' occur?"
- William, Almost Famous

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"'Sometimes bad things happen,' she said to herself.  'Sometimes things change, and we have to change, too.'  She was speaking someone else's words, and I'm not sure she believed them or even understood them.  Perhaps she was committing them to memory because she hoped they would hold the key to her uncertain future."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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"There is no dishonor in losing the race...There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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"Over and over the lines
you memorized in time,
now you're so tired
and the telephone's too far away."
- Grand Archives, "Torn Blue Foam Couch"

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"You know those days when you wanted to choose
To not get out of bed and get lost in your head again."
- Foster the People, "Helena Beat"

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"Do not worry about anything,
but pray and ask God
for everything you need,
always giving thanks."
- Philippians 4:6

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"I don't understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one?  That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called human being."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Photo via Danielle on FB

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"Sometimes I don't want to try
Summer days will pass us by
Makes me kind of sad
This uncertainty"
- Acid House Kings, "Say Yes If You Love Me"

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"America did not invent human rights.  In a very real sense human rights invented America."
- Jimmy Carter

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"I'm beautiful in my way.  
'Cause God makes no mistakes"
- Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"

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"Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family.  He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home.  His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun.  Take the cannoli.'"
- Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

Quote of the Day

"Send mail, in any language that I know how to read."
- Danielle