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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

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

"I wouldn't want to live forever,"
said the rabbit to the flea.
"Being closed in a round of the finite
makes everything more vivid,
the wheel of the world more immediate,
time more precious.
Still..."

"It would be nice to have a little more time,"
said the flea, understanding quite well
what the rabbit was getting at.
"Looking back on the way I lived my life
I feel I might have improved on some things."

"Yes," said the rabbit. "What might have been does nag at one."

"Yet I wouldn't be the flea I am today
if not for those hard earned lessons.
No one promised it would be easy."

"It never is, it never is," agreed the rabbit. "Life is full of snares."

"And flea baths," remarked the flea.

"Quite so."

Random quote of the day:

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Random quote of the day:

“There’s a notion out in the land that there are human beings one writes about, and then there are black people or Indians or some other marginal group. If you write about the world from that point of view, somehow it is considered lesser. It’s racist, of course. The fact that I chose to write about black people means I’ve only been stimulated to write about black people. We are people, not aliens. We live, we love, we die.”

—Toni Morrison, Black Women Writers at Work, ed. Claudia Tate

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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