February 2012
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
– Arthur C Clarke
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry...
– Don Marquis
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
– Abraham Lincoln
Praying is like a rocking chair - it’ll give you something to do, but it...
– Gypsy Rose Lee
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the...
– Charles Dickens
We are always the same age inside.
– Gertrude Stein
January 2012
27 posts
The trouble with the world is that it’s always one drink behind.
– Humphrey Bogart
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the...
– Benjamin Franklin
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The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
– Dizzy Dean
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...
– John Dos Passos
Television: A medium. So called because it’s neither rare nor well done.
– Ernie Kovacs
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging...
– William James
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Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
– Robinson Jeffers
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Something has been said for sobriety but very little.
– John Berryman
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I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his...
– Carl Sandberg
Translation is the art of failure.
– Umberto Eco
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December 2011
10 posts
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November 2011
4 posts
Just a country boy
That combed his hair
And he put on a shirt his mama made...
– Elvis Presley Blues - Gillian Welch
August 2011
4 posts
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