Quotable quotes

[opinterph]

“On other days we have wars as horrible as any you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments—like today at the zoo.”

– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

 

[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

 

[Kahaih]

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This is one of many notions that have changed dramatically since the pandemic lockdowns.

 

[pornoboy]

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[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.”

Jack Kerouac

 

[pornoboy]

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[Araucaria]

 

[Alistair]

" There are things of which I may not speak,
There are dreams that can not die,
There are thoughts that make a strong heart weak, and
bring a pallor in to the cheek,
and a mist before the eye. "
~ Henry Wordsworth Longfellow.

 

[Alistair]

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Nothing is harder yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.”

― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

 

[pornoboy]

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[smokeshadow]

^^is overly rich eggnog included in that list?

 

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[Peloso]

 

[Alistair]

 

[opinterph]

“What happens if you get scared half to death twice?”

― Steven Wright