posted April 15, 2010 07:15 AM              

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"And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs - that song, endlesly reincarnated - born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."

-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

~ Samuel Beckett

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posted April 15, 2010 08:12 AM            

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plentitude of the soul.

- Gaston Bachelard

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posted April 15, 2010 01:26 PM            

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Just as the spider unfolds its web
from within its own being,
we must unfold divine wisdom, divine joy
and the divine potential of God from within ourselves.
The moment we stop trying to make God come to us,
we will realize that God is already here.

- Joel Goldsmith
In... A Parenthesis in Eternity...

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posted April 16, 2010 07:26 AM            

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"And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated"
the Mystic Melody...

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posted April 16, 2010 10:53 PM              

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A delicious hunger inspires the seeker.
The golden belly is always fed,
and never full.

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posted April 16, 2010 11:01 PM              

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the Mystic Melody...

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posted April 20, 2010 04:45 PM            

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.
~ Voltaire

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posted April 20, 2010 09:40 PM              

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posted April 26, 2010 10:18 AM            

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

~James A. Baldwin

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posted April 27, 2010 08:48 AM            

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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." ~James D. Miles

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posted April 27, 2010 08:50 AM            

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T left this on my Myspace page, in December:

"She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them."
— Jedediah Berry

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posted April 27, 2010 09:34 AM            

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"May the Best of Your Yesterdays Be the Worst of Your Tomorrows." New Years Eve toast from the movie "The Long Kiss Goodnight."

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"Every normal man must be tempted at times
to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag,
and begin slitting throats."
-- H. L. Mencken

"The essence of genius
is to know what to overlook."
-- William James

"A man of genius makes no mistakes.
His errors are volitional
and are the portals of discovery."
-- James Joyce

"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"A true friend stabs you in the front."
-- Oscar Wilde

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posted April 29, 2010 02:22 AM              

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"I don't think I'm above them.
I just think their ceiling is my floor."
~ Stephen Valus

"I feel so sorry for sick people!
I feel so sorry for myself!"
~ Karlson On The Roof

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posted April 29, 2010 07:06 PM            

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Never make the same mistake twice or you’ll never get around to all of them. ~ Author Unknown

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posted April 29, 2010 10:15 PM            

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Karlson is MY HERO!

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posted April 30, 2010 07:58 AM            

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

- Lao Tzu

(...and how wonderful our awareness that we are mostly comprised of water in our human form - mermaid26)

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posted April 30, 2010 10:07 AM            

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"Every normal man must be tempted at times
to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag,
and begin slitting throats."
-- H. L. Mencken

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I wouldn't go that far, but this I agree with:

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"A true friend stabs you in the front."
-- Oscar Wilde

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posted April 30, 2010 10:09 AM            

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(...and how wonderful our awareness that we are mostly comprised of water in our human form - mermaid26)

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Yep ~ I like that this is true of everyone, regardless of their astrological makeup.

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posted May 01, 2010 10:56 AM              

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HAMLET
Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me... If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery. Go, farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.

HAMLET
Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong,
But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.
This presence knows, and you must needs have heard,
How I am punished with a sore distraction.
What I have done
That might your nature, honour, and exception
Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet.
If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,
And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
Who does it, then? His madness. If't be so,
Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged;
His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Sir, in this audience,
Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
Free me so far in your most generous thoughts
That I have shot my arrow o'er the house
And hurt my brother.

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posted May 02, 2010 10:41 AM            

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A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann

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posted May 02, 2010 05:05 PM            

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I love what Gandhi says:

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracry?"

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

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posted May 19, 2010 11:10 AM            

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...life is tolerable only by the degree of mystification we endow it with.

~ E.M. Cioran,
A Short History of Decay

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posted May 19, 2010 11:15 AM            

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Hey, a Cioran fan! Hi, mermaid!

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posted May 19, 2010 11:20 AM            

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my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and
chipping with sharp fatal tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of
chrome and execute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am
becoming something a little different, in fact
myself
Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet
bellowings.

~ e.e. cummings, Portraits, VII

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