“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.”
Albus Dumbledore.
(Yes, I know it’s J.K.Rowling)
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
no. 875
“Let me remind you: Surrender means Russian occupation. Russian occupation means torture, sexual violence, enforced disappearance, denial of your identity, forcible adoption of your own children, filtration camps, and mass graves. Occupation is just another form of the war.”
Oleksandra Matviichuk
no. 874
“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
Harper Lee
no. 872
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- Robert Jones Jr.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
no. 871
“Those who walk a hundred miles should consider themselves halfway there at the ninety-ninth.”
Possibly an old Eastern saying.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
no. 868
“For every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple and wrong.”
H L Mencken
Monday, November 11, 2024
no. 867
"Try to realize that you don’t have to annihilate yourself in the face of cultural annihilation. Hold onto who you are and try not to be afraid to live your truth in the midst of an avalanche of toxic bullshit."
Marc Maron
no. 866
“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. That’s all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That’s how the country was settled. Not by Gary Cooper. Yet we have a whole race of people, a whole republic, who believe the myths to the point where even today they select political representatives, as far as I can tell, by how closely they resemble Gary Cooper. Now this is dangerously infantile, and it shows in every level of national life.”
James Baldwin in a Talk to Teachers working in the New York Public School System on October 16, 1963 discussing the American Identity
Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
no. 861
"I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.'
It was very unkind, but most funny."
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It’s important to be able to laugh at yourself, but it’s also important to recognize when people are being assholes.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
no. 857
“ A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles,”
Thomas Jefferson
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