Quotes from Voltaire's Candide |
"Let us work without theorizing," said Martin; "'tis the only way to make life endurable.""I should like to know which is worse, to be raped a hundred times by pirates, to have a buttock cut off, to r...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:19:00 GMT |
Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater |
"Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled." "There's plenty for everybody in this country, if we'll only share more." "And just what do you think that would do to incentive?"...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:07:00 GMT |
Religion. |
Today I felt that I could melt into the earthAnd the earth could melt into me.For a moment, I was a living, breathing, thinking cell of the universe.My footprints lay in front of me just as much as th...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT |
Never. |
Decided to post this for Joie. You know what I'm talking about. NeverMaybe I don't know now what I knew then...when the door would slam and vibrate against the frameAnd I would say to myself, "Never....
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:39:00 GMT |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
(This part made me cry.......like really cry) Very soon after my return to Baltimore, my mistress, Lucretia, died, leaving her husband and one child, Amanda; and in a very short time after her death...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:02:00 GMT |
Today's Short Advice |
I read this in a magazine today."Anyway, your spouse does something objectionable. And you get angry. You say, 'I can't believe you did that.' Here's the thing: The angry part is always about you. It ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:55:00 GMT |
Quotes from Kurt Vonneguts Breakfast of Champions |
I finished this book a long time ago.......the last quote from it.It seems to me that really truthful American novels would have the heroes and heroines alike looking for mothers instead. This needn't...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:05:00 GMT |
Quotes from Kurt Vonneguts CATS CRADLE |
MORE QUOTES
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
"It said a lot of things," she said, "because I was very upset about how Americans couldn't imagine what ...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:02:00 GMT |
Patriotism- My most controversial blog ever....... |
.......(yes, even more controversial than my blogs about Thomas Paine or deism, because even God can't say anything bad about the U.S.A. without catching flack.)
My stom...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:52:00 GMT |
Quotes from Loose Change: The Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson |
AND ONE FOR MY FAVORITE "irk"
"Why is it so hard for us to let go?" I asked. "Other people do." "I know," he said. "But we're not other people. What ma...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:06:00 GMT |
