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hehehe groucho marx is funny 
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank LLoyd Wright
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank LLoyd Wright
"I hate when I get my arm stuck in the mixer. Oh well, now I get tomorrow off."
--My friend Danny.
--My friend Danny.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John burroughs
John burroughs
Fernockerpants! Dam I am definately jealous of that
I stomp on the ground and snort to alert you!, you are in my breeding territory
unknown :!:
I stomp on the ground and snort to alert you!, you are in my breeding territory
unknown :!:
You who live safe
In your warm houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of bread
Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without a name
With no more strength to remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this came about:
I commend these words to you.
Carve them in your hearts
At home, in the street,
Going to bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children,
Or may your house fall apart,
May illness impede you,
May your children turn their faces from you.
----Primo Levi - "If This is a Man"
In your warm houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of bread
Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without a name
With no more strength to remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this came about:
I commend these words to you.
Carve them in your hearts
At home, in the street,
Going to bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children,
Or may your house fall apart,
May illness impede you,
May your children turn their faces from you.
----Primo Levi - "If This is a Man"
Hey that is one long quote henry...nice never the less...okay here is my most favorite author..thomas wolfe ..Yes I am a wolfean
At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity."
From: Of Time and the River
At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity."
From: Of Time and the River
The act of dying is like hitch-hiking into a strange town, late at night, where its cold and raining, and you are alone again.
The final ride---richard brautigan
The final ride---richard brautigan
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. Patrick F. McManus
How's this for a great first line of a novel? (Well it amused me, anyway):
"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
--- Anthony Burgess (Earthly Powers)
"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
--- Anthony Burgess (Earthly Powers)
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
hehehehhe Well hello merryclaire..have not seen you in a few days
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous huxley
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous huxley