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Found 30 posts tagged ‘quotation’

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – November 15, 2018

"Good is stronger than Evil, if you take it on its simplest terms and set yourself to forget the horror! It's mad to refuse to be happy because there's a poison in the world that bites into every nerve. After all, it's short enough! I know very well that Chance could set me screaming like a wounded baboon — every jot of philosophy gone! Well, until that happens, I must endure what I have to endure!" —John Cowyer Powys, Wolf Solent

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – March 26, 2018

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"Let us, with an amused, incredulous smile on our lips, listen to God telling us that we exist." —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – March 21, 2017

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"I did not say it was possible; I only said it was true." —Dumas, or Sir Astley Cooper, or "the Fool in the play," or a character in The Castle Spectre, or [in actuality] Florent Carton Dancourt, Le Chevalier à La Mode, 1687 (as popularly translated into English).

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – June 11, 2016

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"Army, Marriage, the Church, and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

—Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – October 31, 2015

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"Pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet." —Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – October 1, 2015

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"In the book business, you can't even trust the index."

—Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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#book trade #carlos ruiz zafón #book index #quotation

The Right Word – July 17, 2015

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"He jests at scars who never felt a what-you-may-call-it." —Maurice Dolbier, Nowhere Near Everest: An Ascent to the Height of the Ridiculous

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#quotation #whatchamacallit

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – August 4, 2013

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"One of the saddest things in life is that the remark which one fails to catch the first time, and has to have repeated, is so seldom worth it." —E. V. Lucas, Down the Sky

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#quotation #say again

Book of Whispers – July 13, 2011

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When faced with the inevitable, counter with the improbable.
—Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra (slightly paraphrased)

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#quotation #advice #inevitable #improbable

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – January 25, 2009

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"There may be no torture like the years when one learns little after years when one has learned much."
—Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings (A must-read!)

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#quotation #learning #norman mailer