We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy [Trump] whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.
-- David Brooks
“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”
Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." -Oscar Wilde
IT'S BANNED BOOKS WEEK. READ A BANNED BOOK TODAY.
@edgarblythe,
If reading books was money
If spinning records was investing
If drinking was consulting
Baby we'd be rich
Old Man Luedecke (Lyrics to Baby We'd Be Rich)
“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”
― Charles Chaplin
Henry Miller: "You know, Bob Dylan came to my house ten years ago. Joan Baez and her sister brought him and some friends to see me. But Dylan was snooty and arrogant. He was a kid then, of course. And he didn't like me. He thought I was talking down to him, which I wasn't. I was trying to be sociable. But we just couldn't get together. But I know that he is a character, probably a genius, and I really should listen to his work. I'm full of prejudices like everybody else. My kids love him and the Beatles and all the rest."
Bob Dylan: "I like Henry Miller. I think he's the greatest American writer.
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. ~Aldous Huxley
(Book: Crome Yellow
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
— Aesop
"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life." -John Wooden
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. ~Carl Sagan
Never give up hope under any circumstances or situations, no matter how bad it may seem right now, because there is hope, and things will get better if you don't give up.
June Myrick.
"Only those who risk going too far can find out how far they can go." -T. S. Eliot
"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
~ Gerald Durrell
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” —Walter Winchell
“A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.”
attributed to John Wayne
"If all the history you're reading makes you feel warm and cozy and proud, you're not reading history. You're reading propaganda. History should hurt sometimes. Because it's ugly and harsh." @CharmedMagnolia
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Saul Bellow
"A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars." -Salman Rushdie
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
