"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them."--Eudora Welty
When they can't assassinate ideas, they assassinate originators of ideas.
eb
What did you dream?
It's alright, we told you what to dream.
– Roger Waters Welcome to the Machine
"If teen girls are 'old enough' to give birth, then teen boys are old enough to pay child support. You can't . choose who becomes an adult and who doesn't.
Taken from Janis Ian's Facebook page
I'm a percussionist. Noise is my business.
--Dave Hurwitz-- professional classical music percussionist and music critic on YouTube
Kiki D. @FeralCrone wrote:
4yo son said the word prototype. When I asked him what it meant, he said "People are a prototype" and I was too scared to ask what he meant."
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." --Judy Garland
"Arguing with a fool proves there are two."
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." --Daniel J. Boorstin (* No, Stephen Hawking didn't say this.)
“It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter."
- Jim Henson
My pessimism grows daily. - cmturner
Student: What happens after death?
Zen master: How should I know?
Student: But you're a zen master.
Zen master: But not a dead one.
"When you understand that every forest is having a conversation, every garden is singing beneath the soil, and every puddle contains a universe, you're remembering what concrete made you forget." --Via canna.pothecary
"Stop shrinking to fit places you've outgrown."
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"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."
Edward Snowden
"I don't procrastinate. I wait for destiny." --Philomena Cunk
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. " --James Baldwin
