Quotable quotes

[opinterph]

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

― Mark Twain

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“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

― Mark Twain

 

[Rand]

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[pornoboy]

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[metta]

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

- Fernando Pessoa

 

[opinterph]

“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me one more, almost her last, lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.”

― Eudora Welty, On Writing

 

[Rand]

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[Araucaria]

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
― Susan B. Anthony

 

[pornoboy]

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[pornoboy]

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[Latimer]

• In a tweet, Michael Powell drew attention to this article: “On the time J.R.R. Tolkien refused to work with Nazi-leaning publishers.” Wrote Tolkien,

Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.

 

[smokeshadow]

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PB - of course, since some of us have minds that dwell in the gutter; you can guess where I went with the first best thing

 

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[Alistair]

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

[Rand]

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[smokeshadow]

". . .one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm; and that three or more become a Congress!"

attributed to the character of John Adams in the musical 1776

 

[PalacePaul]