Crater

Dec. 10th, 2024 03:27 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“We are all drawn toward the same craters of the spirit—to know what we are and what we are for, to know our purpose, to seek grace.”

—Saul Bellow, Dangling Man



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Rags

Dec. 5th, 2024 05:32 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

—Katherine Mansfield, letter to Ida Baker, 7 March 1922



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Towel

Dec. 3rd, 2024 05:20 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else. They become a pretty little convenience, like a guest towel.”

—John D. Macdonald, The Deep Blue Good-by



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Shutter

Nov. 25th, 2024 03:53 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“If you look into the camera and you see something you recognize, don’t click the shutter.”

—Hiro (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi), quoted in the New York Times “The Lives They Lived” obituary 12/24/21



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Wound

Nov. 20th, 2024 02:33 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

—Francis Bacon, “Of Revenge”



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OldAge

Nov. 13th, 2024 04:36 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Even for those who are no longer so young, old age remained an alien land, its residents regarded with both pity and suspicion.

—Sherry Thomas, A Conspiracy in Belgravia



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In the birthplace of light the shadowmongers slink into the cracks in the stones, always waiting to seep back out. They know night is inevitable, even in that hallowed space.

Yet the light does not despair because the shadowmongers must return again to the chinks and cracks and crevices when the light comes back, cresting the eastern horizon, sometimes dimmed by clouds and storm, but always there.

Neither side ever wins completely, as neither side is defeated forever. Those caught in the war between them must always remember that and take nothing for granted. The fight is eternal.

Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. The eternal verities cannot be counted on. There is no Golden Rule unless we make it in our hearts. Many would rather forget this.

They sit in their huts shivering, even on warm days, even with a fire roaring in the hearth, those who would rather forget the nourishing of their souls. They want a paint-by-number theology that does not require deep reflection. And so the mirrors of their souls show nothing at all.

Their lives are a hollow pit, but the Fog of Reckoning creeps beneath the door and down the chimney, reminding them of what they do not want to see, turning soul’s blood to ice.

The Universe is always in balance, wheeling one way then the other until something crashes, something slips, something falls. Then patiently, the Universe rises again, back on the balance beam, struggling once more to recover.

We are here, on the edge of forever, waiting to see which way we will slip. But the light shines on, never more than a temporary prisoner of the night. The light shines on.

Eternal.

Cats

Oct. 23rd, 2024 05:55 pm
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“Cats don’t give up their secrets easily. But the challenge is why I’m a cat person rather than a dog person. Dogs — they’re just like us! They present little mystery. Cats are the more cerebral companion. The fun is figuring them out.”

—Farhad Manjoo, “I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head,” The New York Times, August 27, 2021



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Trauma

Oct. 17th, 2024 03:09 pm
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“Memories of traumatic experiences are a curious thing. Some are vivid; some are pale; pretty much all of them have been emended in some way, great or small. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to our curated reels. We remember the trivial and forget the exceptional. Our minds truly have minds of their own.”

—Jennifer Senior, “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021



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Dying

Oct. 6th, 2024 05:30 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.”

—Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude



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Moments

Sep. 30th, 2024 05:39 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.”

—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time



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Random quote of the day:

“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.”

—Raymond Chandler, "Great Thought," February 19, 1938, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler



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Envy

Sep. 21st, 2024 05:36 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

—Sherry Thomas, A Conspiracy in Belgravia



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Jokes

Sep. 18th, 2024 04:47 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”

—George Eliot, Daniel Deronda



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Geography

Sep. 10th, 2024 03:19 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The ripples of geography continue to be traced on our inner surfaces, even if our experience there was fleeting and seemed like nothing to us at the time. No matter how long ago the experience was, its power, its healing, sits in wait, sometimes very deep, other times just waiting to be called back from within.”

—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places



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Herself

Sep. 5th, 2024 04:42 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“In the male coming-of-age story, the boy creates himself. In the female coming-of-age story, the girl is created by forces around her. In the feminist coming-of-age story, the girl resists the forces and becomes herself.”

—Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl



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Understand

Sep. 4th, 2024 05:19 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“There doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”

—Robert Brault, “Thoughts By the Sea,” The New Robert Brault Reader



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Questions

Aug. 27th, 2024 06:10 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Anyone who says that the artist’s sphere leaves no room for questions, but deals exclusively with answers, has never done any writing or done anything with imagery. The artist observes, selects, guesses, and arranges; every one of these operations presupposes a question at its outset. If he has not asked himself a question at the start, he has nothing to guess and nothing to select.”

—Anton Chekhov, letter to Alexei Suvorin, October 27, 1888



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Work

Aug. 19th, 2024 02:24 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (tr. D. Herter Norton)



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Love

Aug. 18th, 2024 05:29 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.”

—Susan Sontag, diary, August 29, 1965



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