no. 784

 "I've been around for some time and I've noticed that them as has it in them to shine will shine through six layers of muck, whereas those who ain't shiny won't shine however much you buff 'em."

 Terry Pratchett (by way of Nanny Ogg)

no. 738

 

no. 782

 “Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”

Duke Ellington 

no. 781

Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery."

Robin: "Commentary."

Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."

From the movie, “Annie Hall”

no. 780

 Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

- Daniel Dennett

no. 779

 

no. 778

 “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

Christopher Hitchens 

no. 777

 My wife is gone, my girl is gone, 

my books are loaned, my clothes 

are worn, I gave away a car; and 

all that happened years ago. 

Mind & matter, love & space 

are frail as foam on beer.

—Gary Snyder

no. 776

 If you want to write, you must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books & glorious books. You must lurk in libraries & climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes & wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. 

Ray Bradbury