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Post by donavan on Sept 19, 2019 18:07:43 GMT
But
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Roy T. Bennett
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Post by Terra Incognita on Oct 1, 2019 1:05:59 GMT
“You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.”
― Donald J. Trump
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Post by donavan on Oct 1, 2019 15:13:10 GMT
“You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.” ― Donald J. Trump That's cleared that up then
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Post by Terra Incognita on Oct 1, 2019 21:08:44 GMT
That was one of his more coherent utterances.
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Post by miles on Oct 3, 2019 16:30:14 GMT
A couple from the great philosopher, Groucho Marx. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. ( That reminds me of someone
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Post by miles on Oct 6, 2019 17:18:52 GMT
I am broadening the topic to poetry, because why not?
“In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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Post by Terra Incognita on Oct 9, 2019 20:36:13 GMT
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
― The Tempest
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Post by donavan on Oct 10, 2019 9:21:19 GMT
Thursday I don't care about you.
The Cure
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Post by miles on Oct 15, 2019 16:33:43 GMT
Today's poem:
American Wars Ursula K. Le Guin
Like the topaz in the toad's head the comfort in the terrible histories was up front, easy to find: Once upon a time in a kingdom far away.
Even to the dreadful now of news we listened comforted by far time-zones, languages we didn't speak, the wide forgetful oceans.
Today, no comfort but the jewel courage. The war is ours, now, here, it is our republic facing its own betraying terror. And how we tell the story is forever after.
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Post by donavan on Oct 19, 2019 6:10:26 GMT
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States."
- Spike Milligan
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Post by Terra Incognita on Oct 20, 2019 5:31:16 GMT
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Post by miles on Oct 20, 2019 16:54:33 GMT
“Life is a racket.” “Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything’s a racket.” -Nick Tosches RIP
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Post by miles on Nov 10, 2019 23:12:29 GMT
“In a sense we are all crashing to death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles no matter the imminent peril, these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so distant from commonsense and its logic, that we know the world to be good.”
- Nabokov
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Post by donavan on Nov 14, 2019 17:50:42 GMT
It is already hard enough to understand what someone is saying. Discussion is just an exercise in narcissism where everyone takes turns showing off. Very quickly, you no longer have any idea what is being discussed.
- Gilles Deleuze
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Post by miles on Nov 17, 2019 19:50:53 GMT
When in doubt, poetry.
November
“There is a ticking underneath
everything— by which I mean
not only the dark pulling
at the edges, but also the light
reflecting off the surface.
Sometimes I tell myself
it’s only a crow in the yard,
savaging the last fruit
that clung past summer—
Other times I watch small
dark serifs travel across the sky
and wonder how a body can know
when it’s time to fold itself
into the long, hard distance.”
Luisa A. Igloria
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