"This is what happens when the government becomes a cabaret."
- I.J.
31 January 2017
30 January 2017
Quote of the Day
“All these things would remain while she did not. How strange that her absence would have no effect whatsoever on the things of this world. Proving that fondly were not just things, she thought, proving that they were spirit surrounded by a shell of substance, just like her.”
-Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
-Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
29 January 2017
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"You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames."
- Lloyd Jones
- Lloyd Jones
27 January 2017
24 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon."
- Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
23 January 2017
22 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make."
- Jane Goodall
21 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless."
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
19 January 2017
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“He watched their faces for recognition of the finality of the moment, but there was nothing there but a certainty that they had rescued what was necessary in order to keep living.”
- Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
18 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"[He] was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women have voices."
- Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
17 January 2017
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"We are often tired and imbalanced not because we are doing too much, but because we are doing too little of what is real and meaningful."
- Marianne Williamson
16 January 2017
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
13 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"It was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere."
- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
12 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt."
- Rebecca Solnit
11 January 2017
10 January 2017
Quote of the Day
“Thus was her salvation composed of the very great and the very small. The vast comfort of a God who comforted her in a language other than her own. The bread of life. The gold orange of washed carrots and the taste of salt.”
- Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
09 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
- Socrates
08 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"My God, Annie, what kind of labyrinth have you created?! Certainly not the magic kind with puppets and macho rock stars."
- Dean Pelton, Community 5.06
07 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it."
- Sylvia Plath
06 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
- Mary Oliver
05 January 2017
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"Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!"
- Pope Francis
04 January 2017
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"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies."
- Jon Stewart
03 January 2017
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"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
02 January 2017
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"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet."
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
01 January 2017
Quote of the Day
"The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be here."
- Anne Lamott
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