Your Quote of the Day

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

That's one of those statements that is politically incorrect to argue with.

Which doesn't mean it can't be argued with.

The fault with that statement seems to me to be taking all such people to be clones, emotionally. We all know that a sensitive guy like yourself could not come down with a depression mimicing that of a brute such as myself.

That's why it is not to be argued with. It gets personal.

"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
--Barbara Bush

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
― Henry Miller

That's the sort of thing I like 'ol Henry for. Such wisdom is hard to find.

When Miller is at his best he is among my top favorite authors.

I have most of his books and a few biogs as well.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
- Augustus Hare

Including Moloch and Crazy Cock?

I have C.C. I'm not sure about Moloch. I don't remember reading it.

He's not as good as Jane Austen.

I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.
- Susan Orlean

Like C. C., Moloch is one of his efforts that did not quite jell, also before Tropic of Cancer.

“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
― Billie Holiday

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

I thought all decent books are like that ed. Try this for class.

"Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School--not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems--and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity--but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies."

Jane Austen. Emma.

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell

Bertie held a large number of hard and fast opinions about all sorts of things.

One might suppose your up-thumbers do too vonny.

The only doubt I ever saw he expressed was whether the chair he was sitting on was not almost entirely empty space. He never doubted who was stupid though.