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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 317

March 1, 2024

“I think the things that have been the most meaningful are the ones I never made a penny on. They needed to be done — and that’s that.”

—Legendary criminal justice advocate and prison reformer, Bill Habern (1938-2023) in God Save Texas: Hometown Prison with Richard Linklater

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 316

February 13, 2024

"I was having dinner with Garry Kasporov and there was a check tablecloth. It took him two hours to pass me the salt."

—Andrew Tarvin

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 315

February 12, 2024

"I feel so fortunate to have gracious and merciful people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life. Connecting with those who are able to maintain a sense of humility is really useful."

—Julien Baker

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 314

February 11, 2024

"I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership."

—S. Truett Cathy

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 313

February 10, 2024

Officer Evangeline Navarro (Kali Raiss): "This [banquet of food] is amazing. What were you, Rose, before?"

Rose Aguineau (Fiona Shaw): "You mean...before I was old and crazy?"

Navarro: "No, I mean before Alaska. Your name isn't Rose Aguineau, is it? Ya never talk about it."

Rose: "Well, I was a very serious professor in a very serious school, writing very serious ideas."

Navarro: "Why'd you leave?"

Rose: "One Tuesday morning after coffee, I sat down to polish some pompous, useless article. And I just had enough. I had enough. Every word I'd written in my entire life was meaningless. Making so much noise. So much noise. It is a little quieter here. Mostly. Except for all the dead."

—Rose and Navarro, True Detective: Night Country (aka Season 4, Episode 4)

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 312

February 2, 2024

"Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face."

—Carol Moseley-Braun

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 311

July 5, 2023

"You gotta stay busy workin', but not doin' busy work!"

—Shawn Prickett

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 310

July 2, 2023

"There's a society of people who are reaching for something great, and then there's the record business." 

—John Waite

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 309

June 26, 2023

"I sing. And never forget that there's no such thing as happenstance. That's an illusion lawless and arrogant men invented so that they could sacrifice the truth of our world to the laws of reason."

—Andrea Bocelli 

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 308

June 24, 2023

"You don’t have to say anything. Many's the person who missed the opportunity to say nothing and lost much because of it."

—"Sean" (Andrew Bennett), The Quiet Girl

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 307

June 21, 2023

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

—Bertrand Russell

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 306

June 1, 2023

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 305

May 28, 2023

"They tried to bury me. They didn’t know I was a seed."

—Sinead O’Connor

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 304

May 19, 2023

"When you see the world and you see the laws of brute necessity which govern it, you realize the only way that you can reconcile this veil of suffering, the only way you can reconcile it to sanity is to glue your soul to prayer."

—Leonard Cohen

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 303

May 15, 2023

"Reputation is a foreshadowing of our character for those who’ve yet to meet us."

—Idea

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 302

May 9, 2023

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 301

May 4, 2023

"In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety."  

—Abraham Maslow

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 300

May 1, 2023

"When you have money, it’s nothing. When you have none, it’s everything."

—Idea

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 299

April 26, 2023

"The only good race pace is suicide pace and today looks like a good day to die."

—Steve Prefontaine

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 298

April 24, 2023

“My father used to say, ‘How you do anything is how you do everything.’” 

—Marquis (Bill Skarsgård), John Wick: Chapter 4

 

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 297

April 13, 2023

"Fall down seven times, get up eight."

—Japanese proverb

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 296

April 12, 2023

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."

—Chinese proverb

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 295

April 11, 2023

"Change is hard but irrelevance is harder."

—Dr. Steve Buchholz

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 294

April 2, 2023

"Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat."

—Caroline Schoeder

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 293

April 1, 2023

Things do not change; we change.”

—Henry David Thoreau

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 292

March 31, 2023

“Behold the turtle! He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

—Attributed in 1949 (by Harvard University President James B. Conant) to an anonymous Manhattan Project scientist, engineer, or manager 

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 291

March 28, 2023

"Taking control of uncertainty and successfully steering your organization through frequent bends in the road is the fundamental leadership challenge of our time. And it will call for a distinctly different type of leadership than the one you were trained for and are likely currently exercising. The advantage now goes to those who don’t just learn to live with change, but who create change. I call these people catalysts."

—Ram Charan

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 290

March 26, 2023

“I tried to learn TikTok over the pandemic. My nieces love it, but they’re 13 and they're like, 'We'll show you, Aunt Kath,’ and they show me their phones and I watch them. If you've never seen TikTok, it's just a barrage of videos. And I put them down and they're like, 'You didn't like it, did you?' I go, 'Well, here's what I'll say about it: I feel like I just sat next to someone who did an eight ball! Nope. I'm a drinker, not a drugger, so nope.' And they go, like, 'Oh, are you saying it's, like, too much?' I go, 'Yeah, it's WAY too much. I...I can't process it.' They go, 'Yeah, but just because our videos are mostly dance and music and stuff. Like, you could build your own and it won't be as crazy.' I said, 'All right,' so I signed up, and I don't know how it decides what your first batch of videos is gonna be, but my first batch, all of my people were in hospice.

I like Instagram 'cause it's passive, pleasant, there's nothin' bad. People are nice on Instagram. It's beagles, puppies eating ice cream cones, and that kinda stuff.

Now, Twitter, I like that one, but it's aggressive. You better be ready! It's like walkin' into a bar at midnight and everybody's had shots except you: 'Well, well, look what the cat dragged in with a little opinion about nothin'!'

Facebook, I don't love it. I have it, for work, but I don't like Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah, because I feel like he stole all our information. He sold it 17 times around the globe and he never paid a price for that. My parents like it, but they're 80. They get up in the morning, they drink coffee, and then they troll the entire family, every second cousin, third cousin, people we lived by when I was five. That's their morning entertainment. That's why I told my nieces and nephews, ‘Uh, heads up. If I were you guys, I would NOT friend Grandpa. Or Grandma for that matter. They look innocent and seem nice, but they're spies. They're gonna go through your whole feed, they're gonna read everything, and then they're gonna report back and tell your parents.”

Kathleen Madigan: Hunting Bigfoot (2023 at 00:32:35, available on Amazon Prime)

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 289

March 24, 2023

"Friendship means little when it's convenient."

—Shimazu (Hiroyuki Sanada), John Wick: Chapter 4

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 288

March 17, 2023

"Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become."

—James Clear, Atomic Habits

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 287

March 16, 2023

"Only the forgotten are ever really gone," so, if one loves others boundlessly, memories of her will reverberate throughout the ages and she shall prove immortal."

—Idea

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 286

March 13, 2023

"Innovation needs space to dream, and maybe more important, space to make mistakes. Detours and complications create a deeper knowledge and understanding of your topic. If you only repeat what was successful before, you will probably never create something truly unique." 

—Joachim Sauter (1959-2021), Founder of ART+COM, creator of TerraVision (now known as Google Earth)

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 285

March 12, 2023

"No matter where you plant them, people are emotional orchards that always bear fruit. The question is, 'What kind?'"

—Idea

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 284

March 11, 2023

“The right thing to do is simple to see: Among all the options, it's the difficult one!”

—Idea

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 283

March 1, 2023

"Reputation is a foreshadowing of our character for those who've yet to meet us."

—Idea

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 282

February 9, 2023

"Tell me your habits and I'll tell you your future."

"Trust is the degree to which I believe you are for me."

"Everything we are doing we are becoming."

"Just as marriage further forms us, so too does our work."

 

—Walter Nusbaum, Faith at Work luncheon, RockPointe Church, February 8, 2023

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 281

February 3, 2023

"Oh, look at that snaggletooth! My goodness, you could eat corn through a fence!"

—Betty (Sally Field) in 80 for Brady

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 280

February 2, 2023

 

SNAKE RULES:

Rule #1: If you see a snake, shoot it.

Rule #2: Don’t play with dead snakes.

Rule #3: Everything looks like a snake at first.

 

About Rule #1:

The key is snake-killin’. What’s dangerous must die. End of story. Don’t set up a snake committee. Don’t listen to snake user groups. Don’t write snake essays or send snake memos. Don’t have conference calls about the snake. Don’t leave voice mails about the snake. Don’t have meetings about the snake. Just kill the damn snake already. If you perceive a mortal threat, waste no time. Attack it before it attacks you. You may find that getting rid of a snake can sometimes be a greater problem than the snake itself. People within a company LOVE to write memos about the snake. Don’t let ’em! Just kill, kill, kill, and kill again! It’s kill or be killed.

 

About Rule #2:

Keep going even if you’ve attacked the wrong threat or solved the wrong problem. That’s life. That’s learning. And after the snake is officially dead, don’t revisit it. Some people may insist that the snake is still around. They’re usually the same people who lost the argument and were overruled.

 

About Rule #3:

Most opportunities start out looking like a snake. If a threatening snake turns out not to be a problem, turn from attacking it to using it!

—James Barksdale (former CEO of Netscape, COO of FedEx, and Board Member of Time Warner)

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 279

January 18, 2023

"Barksdaleisms"

 

“In a fight between a bear and an alligator, it’s the terrain that determines who wins.”   

 

“Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.” 

 

“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” 

 

“Nobody that I know can predict the next two pings of the pinball.”

 

“He squeezes a quarter so tight the eagle screams.”

 

“He’s tighter than a bull’s ass at fly time.”

 

“Now, I’m the President around here, so if I say a chicken can pull a tractor trailer, your job is to hitch ’em up.” 

 

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” 

 

“Your job is to run as fast as you can toward the cliff. My job is to move the cliff.” 

 

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” (Relentless focus on “the main thing” is a universal attribute of great operators. As an example of implementing this idea in a nonprofit context, Jim Barksdale has said: “…whatever they say to us about what’s going on here or there, our question is always, ‘But are the children learning to read?’ And we want to just stay focused on that.”)

—James Barksdale (former CEO of Netscape, COO of FedEx, and Board Member of Time Warner)

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 278

January 1, 2023

Are our exclamation points out of hand?

See for yourself!

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 277

August 29, 2022

Charlie Ireland (agricultural consultant): “How's it feel?”

Jeremy Clarkson: “Well, I'll let you know in a minute, 'cause you're going to tell me the figures. You're going to give me the moment of truth. It hasn't been a great year for for farming, generally. I read in The Times yesterday [that] it's [been] the worst year for farmers since 1976. Dry summer.”

Ireland: “So, we're just gonna look at these top boxes. Look at the blue. And now I'm gonna frighten you. Last year, we made £226,000 from crop sales. That's before any costs. And this year's £137,000, so, £90,000 lower from the same area. That is £90,000 down.”

Clarkson: “It’s enormous.”

Ireland: “40% lower.”

Clarkson: “And £90,000 gone because of the weather. So, where are the costs, because how much?”

Ireland: “We spent £14,000 on seed, £34,000 on fertilizer, and £20,000 on sprays. So, £68,601. And then there's £68,457 of other costs: Kaleb, plus machinery. So, you've made £144 profit from the arable farm.”

Clarkson [incredulous]: “So, the fact of the matter is this: Farming seven days a week for a year, on a 1,000-acre farm, has generated an income of £144. Correct?

Ireland: “Correct.”

Clarkson: “Well, fortunately, at the moment, we have this subsidy. When that goes, what are farmers going to do? I mean, honestly, what are they going to do? The ones who don't have Amazon film crews following them around and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? To top up the income? I mean, what do you do when the subsidy starts to go down?”

Ireland: “There will be… there's gonna be a sea change to the, rurally, you know, the countryside. There'll be 30% fewer farmers, probably, but that's where we are with farming in this day and age.”

Clarkson: “So, the next time a farmer moans about the weather, put your arm ‘round him and buy him a pint, because he's not moaning about it ‘cause it's a bit miserable working in the rain; he's moaning about it ‘cause it's crucifying. I've worked bloody hard all year and my reward is £144. Even with the grants and subsidies added in, I'd have been far better off selling up, putting the money in the bank, and living off the interest.”

—Dialogue courtesy of Clarkson's Farm (episode 8 / season finale, Amazon Prime 2021), when Jeremy Clarkson takes stock of that year's profit (or lack thereof)

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LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 276

August 17, 2022

[Harry Edwards:] "He would call me up and say, 'Harry, I was just thinking' and I would say, 'What do you want? What's goin' on?' or 'What do we got to talk about?' and, after a while, I came to respect his disposition."

[Arthur Ashe:] "You grow up Black in the American South, you have no control. Your life is proscribed. And then in the '60s, then you had Black ideologues trying to tell me what to do. All the time, I am saying to myself Hey, when do I get to decide what I want to do? and so I've always been fiercely protective with anyone wanting to control my life."

[Harry Edwards:] "Arthur was the fist person to really push me to understand that Black orthodoxy is not an acceptable substitute for institutionalized White racism... that it has to be about people having the freedom to make their OWN decisions in terms of how they approach this struggle. Otherwise, what are we fighting for?"

—Recollections by [Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley] Dr. Edwards and [then tennis champion, author, activist] Ashe (from HBO Max's Citizen Ashe) regarding the latter's approach to social justice

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 275

May 24, 2022

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 274

April 20, 2022

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

—Roddy Piper in John Carpenter's They Live (1988)

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 273

April 9, 2022

“Isn’t it amazing how far decent people will go when they’re sure they’re right.”

—Sam Waterston as George Shultz in 2022's The Dropout on Hulu

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 272

February 23, 2022

The person across from you has survived the unsurvivable, is wandering in the wilderness now, or is rapidly approaching violent waterfalls and unseen yet all-consuming plunge pools. In time, everyone drinks from the cup of sorrows.

AND WHEN THEY DO   — AND WHEN THEY DO —   may they also find in abundance there our spirits of patience, kindness, empathy, understanding, and love.

—Idea

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 270

February 11, 2022

"Life has taught me one thing, Miss Scott: If you don’t want to be disappointed, only help those who help themselves."

—Agnes Van Rhijn, Season 1, Episode 2, The Gilded Age

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 271

February 9, 2022

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

—James Clear, Atomic Habits

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 269

January 15, 2022

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

—Plato

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 268

January 2, 2022

“The artist will move future generations when the bones of kings have long since mouldered away.”

—Franz Alexander von Kleist, Dresden, 1792 (one year following Mozart’s death)

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 267

January 1, 2022

“Mozart is too easy for children, but too difficult for professionals.”

—Arthur Schnabel 

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 266

December 28, 2021

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

—Gautama Buddha

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 264

November 1, 2021

"You're pushing on an open door, Colin."

Manhunt, Season 2: The Night Stalker, Episode 3 (said to Martin Clunes' DCI Colin Sutton)

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 265

November 1, 2021

"Best way's a long way gone now."

—Tony Curran's Logan McClay in Calibre as he brainstorms alternatives for burying a body

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 263

September 11, 2021

“Multilevel marketing is the village where everything is possible. The flip side of that is if everything is possible, nothing is true.”

——Robert FitzPatrick, LuLaRich

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 262

June 14, 2021

"Appalachia is a wound, and a joy, and a poem.

A knot of complication.

But you cannot know a place without loving it, hating it,

and feeling everything in between.

You cannot understand the complex people by only looking at the way

they have been portrayed on the television and movie screens.

 

One must go to the mountains to drive these winding roads

One must sit and jaw for a while with folks on their front porches

Must attend weddings and high school graduations.

One must study the history of the place and come to understand it

Must sit at a wake and look at the lines on the faces of the people

and the callouses on their hands and understand the

Gestational and generational complexities

Of poverty and pride and culture.

 

Something inside you has to crack to let in the light so

your eyes and brains and heart can adjust properly."

—Silas House, from 2018's stirring documentary, Hillbilly

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January 12, 2021

"I believe that how you sell is a free sample of how you solve."

—Joe Brouillette

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December 27, 2020

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

—Saint Augustine

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December 1, 2020

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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November 29, 2020

“They say the definition of an optimist is someone who believes the future is uncertain, and a pessimist is always right but they derive no satisfaction.”

Robert Downey Jr. on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (10/20/2020)

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November 28, 2020

“I was drifting, like most people do when they come out of university. I thought acting would last about a year. Here we are, 35 years [later]. There was a sort of excursion in those early years where I was also writing my own material with a couple of writing partners. Those were very happy days. I remember feeling the most satisfied and like a human being at the end of those days, more than any day on any film set ever. You know this: Any kind of primary creativity where you actually turn a blank page into something hits a very profound spot and one that is deeply satisfying.”

—Hugh Grant, 11/27/2020

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November 23, 2020

"They say no one's gonna save you

You've gotta make it on your own

But I called from the dark

And you picked up the phone

On my back in the raging blue

I looked up, and you cut right through

 

And when I came back empty-handed

You met me in the road

And you fell on my neck

And you took me back home

After all that I took from you

After all that I put you through

Here I am"

Fire in Bone by Stuart David Price, Brandon Flowers, and Ronnie Jr. Vannucci

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November 12, 2020

As a world waits in impotent frustration,

The Sovereign God of the universe laughs, whistles

And rules from His throne.

The Alpha and Omega determines the end from the beginning.

He raises and deposes kings.

God's designed pauses give opportunities to remember it is not by might,

Nor by power

But by His Spirit

That details of all time are orchestrated.

With God on the throne, I have nothing to fear.

 

Sovereign Lord, give me peace while I wait—and pray—in your pause.

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October 21, 2020

“America needs Thanksgiving now more than ever. It’s inevitable, due to our battered psyche. This is a nation that’s in pain.”

—Dr. Oz

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October 19, 2020

"We don't use the people to get the work done, we use the work to get the people done."

—Bill McCready, Lead Pastor, LifePoint Church

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September 9, 2020

“There’s nothing older than the idea that this is new.”

—Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

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September 3, 2020

“And especially, you don’t want to go to a college where the professors think that students are there to provide them with an audience for indoctrination.”

—Thomas Sowell

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August 24, 2020

"Is she an only?"

"Au contraire, she's not our only...she’s our everything."

—Mom & Dad

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August 22, 2020

“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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July 29, 2020

“John Prine was, without a doubt, one of the greatest songwriters this world will ever know. Many people more qualified than me have written about why that is. And many more will follow. Greatest or not, here’s what it comes down to for me and here’s why he rests on my heart’s mountain top: Because he cared enough to look—at me, you, all of us—until he saw what was noble and then he wrapped us up in melodies and sung us back to ourselves. 

That was the miracle of John Prine. And it was enough.”

—Iris Dement, 04/10/2020

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July 10, 2020

“I can only coach the person in front of me.”

—Idea

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May 8, 2020

"Isn't it interesting how life's boomerangs often bring us home?"

—Idea

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April 20, 2020

"Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom."

—Plato

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March 14, 2020

“There are only two forces that unite men—fear and interest.”

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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March 13, 2020

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” 

—Marie Curie

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March 1, 2020

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman, Specimen Days and Collect, 1881

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January 27, 2020

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Hamlet to Horatio in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1.5.167-8)

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January 20, 2020

"We recommend coming with a good attitude and a tape measure."

—Orr-Reed Wrecking Co.

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January 19, 2020

"Booze can be a good servant, but it’s a lousy master."

—DI Fred Thursday, Endeavor, Season 2, Episode 1, Trove

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January 8, 2020

“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,

He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

1917's General Erinmore (portrayed by Colin Firth) quoting The Winners by Rudyard Kipling.

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January 4, 2020

"When one can see no future, all one can do is the next right thing."

—Grand Pabbie (troll chief), Frozen II 

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January 1, 2020

“If you look at the world you'll be distressed. If you look within you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”

—Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom

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December 23, 2019

"I can save the day, but you can save the world."

—Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) to Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) in Wonder Woman 1984

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December 15, 2019

“All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.”

—Pa Bailey, It's A Wonderful Life

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December 2, 2019

"Beware, children, you can leave yourself behind. You won't even know when it happened. All children grow up, but some—the wild ones, the ones with the light in their eye—escape."

—2020's Wendy (screenplay by Benh Zeitlin and Eliza Zeitlin)

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September 29, 2019

"I really found what I like to eat by the time I was six. I've saved a lot of experimenting since then, continuing to put a lot of salt on hamburgers and go to it."

—Warren Buffett with his billionaire-bud, Bill (at 00:32:30, Episode 2 of Netflix's Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates), liberally shaking the salt and diving into the perfect meal.

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September 14, 2019

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. Circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

 

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.

—James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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August 28, 2019

"If his IQ slips any lower we'll have to water him twice a day."

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) when describing the late, great Jim Collins (U.S. Representative, R-Dallas)

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August 4, 2019

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

—Sixo (on why he loves the Thirty-Mile Woman) in Beloved, by Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019)

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August 3, 2019

“You can buy a man's time, you can buy a man's physical presence at a certain place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”

—Clarence Francis

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July 12, 2019

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

—Roald Dahl, The Twits

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July 11, 2019

“Power without love is reckless and abusive. Love without power is sentimental and anemic.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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July 9, 2019

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

 

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

 

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, 1923

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June 23, 2019

“It’s all about trying to ‘help somebody cross.’ While everybody else is fighting for a seat at the table, talking about ‘#OscarsSoWhite, #OscarsSoWhite,’ I said, ‘Y’all go ahead and do that. While you’re fighting for a seat at the table, I’ll be down in Atlanta building my own.’ Because what I know for sure is that if I could just build this table, God will prepare it for me in the presence of my enemies.”

Tyler Perry (acceptance speech for BET Awards’ Ultimate Icon Award)

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June 12, 2019

"Now we rise

and we are everywhere."

Pink Moon by Nick Drake (1948-1974)

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June 1, 2019

Scott: "Garlic bread is my favorite food. I could honestly eat it for every meal. Or just eat it all the time without even stopping." 

 

Ramona: "You'd get fat." 

 

Scott: "Why would I get fat?" 

 

Ramona: "Bread makes you fat." 

 

Scott: "Bread makes you fat?"

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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May 7, 2019

“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

—Voltaire, Candide

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May 5, 2019

A demonym is any name derived from a place that helps describe people who live there. Californians are people who live in California. Frenchmen live in France. And so on. But what about the demonyms that are seemingly random?

 

How the heck did people from the Netherlands become the Dutch, for example?

 

Before we dig into this demonym, there are three terms we need to define: Holland, the Netherlands, and Dutch. In Old English dutch simply meant “people or nation.” (This also explains why Germany is called Deutschland in German.)

 

Over time, English-speaking people used the word Dutch to describe people from both the Netherlands and Germany. (At that point in time, in the early 1500s, the Netherlands and parts of Germany, along with Belgium and Luxembourg, were all part of the Holy Roman Empire.) Specifically the phrase “High Dutch” referred to people from the mountainous area of what is now southern Germany. “Low Dutch” referred to people from the flatlands in what is now the Netherlands.

 

Within the Holy Roman Empire, the word “Netherlands” was used to describe people from the low-lying (nether) region (land). The term was so widely used that when they became a formal, separate country in 1815, they became the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The word “Holland” literally meant “wood-land” in Old English and originally referred to people from the northern region of the Netherlands. Over time, it came to apply to the entire country. Got all that?

 

In some cases, the demonym preceded the place name. For example, Finland is the place where the Finns live, just as Germany is the place where the Germans live. The people came before the official government and place name. (Parts of what we call Germany was called Prussia until 1932.)

 

In English we denote place of origin by suffixes. The most common suffixes that denote place are: -(a)n (Chicagoan), -er (New Yorker), -ese (Chinese), -ian (Norwegian), and -ish (English). Where did these suffixes come form? Latin, of course. -ish actually comes from Old English, which is why citizens of the British Isles have -ish demonyms: Scottish, Welsh, English, etc. The other suffixes came from Latin, though they each convey slightly different senses. -ese most directly meant “belonging to or originating in a place.” -(a)n and -ian are variations on the same suffix meaning “belonging to.” -er was used principally in the sense of “one having to do with a thing,” as in lawyer or villager. As with most vocabulary in English, they all now coexist and serve the same purpose.

 

It’s also important not to confuse demonyms with adjectives. You can listen to an Argentinian song, but it is sung by an Argentine.

 

Here are a few of our other favorite exceptions to the rule:

Kiwi

Neapolitan

Liverpudlian

Cypriot

Czech

Turk

Buckeye

Hoosier

Spaniard

Greek

Swiss

Swede

Uzbek

—dictionary.com

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March 17, 2019

"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."

—President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation for "A Day Of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer in the United States of America" on April 30, 1863

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March 13, 2019

“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.”

Donald E. Knuth

Computer Science Department

Stanford University

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February 15, 2019

"A gift must never favor the giver."

—idea

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February 13, 2019

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

—Abraham Lincoln

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February 12, 2019

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

—Mark Twain

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November 26, 2018

"Unbow your head, sister."

—Ernestine Rivers, in James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk

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November 22, 2018

“O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good; because his mercy endureth for ever.”

Psalm 118:1

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November 19, 2018

“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel to set in the hearts of honest men, but be careful that you do not take the day and leave out the gratitude.”

E.P. Powell

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November 13, 2018

"We were together.

I forget the rest."

Walt Whitman

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November 5, 2018

"The first to apologize is the bravest.

 

The first to forgive is the strongest.

 

The first to forget is the happiest."

 

—idea

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October 29, 2018

“This is my fault, Honey. If I hadn't...this wouldn't have happened. I’m so sorry.”

 

“You’re not that powerful, Dad. Eat your food.”

Ally (Lady Gaga), to her grieving father, Lorenzo (Andrew Dice Clay), after her husband, Jack (Bradley Cooper), dies by suicide in 2018's A Star Is Born

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October 23, 2018

“We each fall short, yet we are each enough.”

—idea

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October 20, 2018

“Laughter is what gives me forward motion. We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it’s because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Tears bring relief. Laughter brings release.

 

Some years ago I came across a phrase in Greek—asbestos gelos—inextinguishable, unquenchable laughter. I traced it to Homer’s Iliad, where it was used to describe the laughter of the gods. That's my kind of laughter. And he who laughs, lasts.

 

Good night. Sleep loose.”

 

—Robert Fulghum, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

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October 20, 2018

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,

As I foretold you, were all spirits, and

Are melted into air, into thin air:

And like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on; and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.

—Prospero, in The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1, 148–158, by William Shakespeare, written 1610-1611

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October 19, 2018

“Oft expectation fails and most oft there

Where most it promises, and oft it hits

Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.”

—William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1, Line 145

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October 19, 2018

“To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.”

—Plato

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 201

October 17, 2018

"Woe the barren world, the world without compliment or apology."

—idea

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 203

October 10, 2018

“The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.” 

—Leonard Hand

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October 5, 2018

“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”

—Oliver Cromwell

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September 29, 2018

“It is time for you to go home. You have been a thirsty man looking for a drink and all the while standing knee-deep in a flowing stream.

 

There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is nothing you must become.

 

However, it helps to understand that fire burns and that when it rains, the earth gets wet.

 

Whatever, there are consequences. No body is exempt.”

Adapted from Manabu Kohara

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September 21, 2018

“I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world—into the black places in the hearts of men—and change some things in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.”

Alexandros Papaderos

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 198

September 19, 2018

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Preface, “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It” by Robert Fulghum 

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 197

August 20, 2018

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

—Voltaire

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 195

August 17, 2018

"Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch and a kick just a kick.

After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick.

Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick."

—Bruce Lee

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 192

August 12, 2018

"Sociology is psychology at scale."

—idea

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 193

August 12, 2018

"I made very few promisesand kept them all."

—Teddy Roosevelt when asked, "To what do you attribute the success of your presidency?"

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 191

August 4, 2018

“Don’t sacrifice your career for your job.”

—Habit #6 from How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Sally Helgesen

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 196

July 15, 2018

"If some is good, more must be better."

—Reynolds' Supposition

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 194

June 29, 2018

"I have a hypothesis, though that's all it is: The most common root cause of disappointment in life is missed expectations."

—idea

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 190

June 15, 2018

“The world needs fewer gurus and more scholars. Gurus preach from intuition; scholars teach from evidence. Gurus promote themselves; scholars promote ideas. Gurus make promises; scholars ask questions.”

—Adam Grant

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 188

May 14, 2018

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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May 13, 2018

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

 
Courage to change the things I can,
 
and wisdom to know the difference.”

“The Serenity Prayer” (1934) by Reinhold Niebuhr

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April 9, 2018

"Much of this testimony reveals that while technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies."

—Representative Tom Lantos, a California Democrat and chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on 11/07/2007, lecturing Yahoo and General Counsel Michael Callahan regarding Yahoo's role in the arrest of journalist Shi Tao.

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 186

March 14, 2018

"In places like Abilene, Kansas, the big sins, left unchallenged, would have had very practical and disastrous effects. Sloth could lead to the failure of a family farm; gluttony and inebriation to the destruction of a family; lust to the ruination of a young man or woman; vanity to excessive spending, debt, and bankruptcy.

In places like that, people had an awareness not only of sin but of the different kinds of sins and the different remedies for each. Some sins, such as anger and lust, are like wild beasts. They have to be fought through habits of restraint. Other sins, such as mockery and disrespect, are like stains. They can be expunged only by absolution, by apology, remorse, restitution, and cleansing. Still others, such as stealing, are like a debt. They can be rectified only by repaying what you owe to society. Sins such as adultery, bribery, and betrayal are more like treason than like crime; they damage the social order. Social harmony can be rewoven only by slowly recommitting to relationship and rebuilding trust. The sins of arrogance and pride arise from a perverse desire for status and superiority. They only remedy for them is to humble oneself before others.

In other words, people in earlier times inherited a vast moral vocabulary and set of moral tools, developed over centuries and handed down from generation to generation. This was a practical inheritance, like learning how to speak a certain language, which people could use to engage their own moral struggles."

—David Brooks, The Road to Character

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January 16, 2018

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances...to choose one's own way."

Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 184

November 22, 2017

“We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

 

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

 

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity—in all this vastness—there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

Cornell University lecture by Dr. Carl Sagan, October 13, 1994, regarding a photographic image captured by Voyager 1 in 1990. Known as “Reflections on a Mote of Dust,” Dr. Sagan expanded on these ideas in his 1996 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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October 29, 2017

“Now, I’m nobody, but I think I was able to meet the challenge. I did what I had to—when I had to—and I was lucky to be able to do it.”

Adolfo Kaminsky (92), former member of the French Resistance in World War II, whose identification documents’ forgeries afforded safe passage to Jews within, across, and out of Nazi-occupied France. He and his colleagues are credited with saving the lives of no fewer than 3,000 French Jews, and perhaps as many as 14,000.

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September 27, 2017

“How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?“

—Agent Bill Tench, Mindhunter

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 181

September 18, 2017

"The privately educated Englishman is the greatest dissembler on earth… Was, is now, and ever shall be, for as long as our disgraceful school system remains intact. Nobody will charm you so glibly, disguise his feelings from you better, cover his tracks more skillfully, or find it harder to confess to you that he's been a damn fool. Nobody acts braver when he's frightened stiff, or happier when he's miserable; nobody can flatter you better when he hates you than your extrovert Englishman or woman."

George Smiley, in The Secret Pilgrim, by John le Carré

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 180

September 15, 2017

"I smell like sleep. I need to take a shower at your place. Worst case, I need to wash my bangs in the sink."

—Overheard on a train

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 179

August 25, 2017

"You're a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond."

—Mr. White, Spectre

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 178

August 24, 2017

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 177

August 22, 2017

"Carve every word before you let it fall."

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 176

August 8, 2017

"I feel excited and lucky to be working on this project for Netflix. Here's what I have learned, if you retire to spend more time with your family, check with your family first. Thanks for watching, drive safely."

David Letterman (who retired two years ago after 33 years and 6,000 interviews) announcing a pre-recorded 6-episode longform conversation program set to debut in 2018

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August 7, 2017

“Don’t look too long at the door that closes, or you won’t see the door that opens. The ancient Egyptian myth claims that every 500 years the phoenix bird would fly into a fire of its own origin and burn to ashes, only to rise again full of vigor.”

Miguel Martinez, founder of El Fenix

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 174

August 6, 2017

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I aim with my eye.

 

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I shoot with my mind.

 

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.

I kill with my heart.” 

—Gunslinger's Creed, The Dark Tower, by Stephen King

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August 1, 2017

"I still have faith, but I don't know why. Maybe it's the fire in my little girl's eyes."

—Jason Isbell

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 172

July 11, 2017

"Walked out this morning, I don't believe what I saw—

A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore.
Seems I'm not alone in being alone,
A hundred billion castaways... looking for a home.”

Message in a Bottle, The Police, 1979

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 171

June 23, 2017

"I thought it would last my time— 

The sense that, beyond the town, 

There would always be fields and farms, 

Where the village louts could climb 

Such trees as were not cut down; 

I knew there’d be false alarms

 

In the papers about old streets 

And split level shopping, but some 

Have always been left so far; 

And when the old part retreats 

As the bleak high-risers come 

We can always escape in the car.

 

Things are tougher than we are, just 

As earth will always respond 

However we mess it about; 

Chuck filth in the sea, if you must: 

The tides will be clean beyond. 

—But what do I feel now? Doubt?

 

Or age, simply? The crowd 

Is young in the M1 cafe; 

Their kids are screaming for more— 

More houses, more parking allowed, 

More caravan sites, more pay. 

On the Business Page, a score

 

Of spectacled grins approve 

Some takeover bid that entails 

Five per cent profit (and ten 

Per cent more in the estuaries): move 

Your works to the unspoilt dales 

(Grey area grants)! And when

 

You try to get near the sea 

In summer . . . 

        It seems, just now, 

To be happening so very fast; 

Despite all the land left free 

For the first time I feel somehow 

That it isn’t going to last,

 

That before I snuff it, the whole 

Boiling will be bricked in 

Except for the tourist parts— 

First slum of Europe: a role 

It won’t be hard to win, 

With a cast of crooks and tarts.

 

And that will be England gone, 

The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, 

The guildhalls, the carved choirs. 

There’ll be books; it will linger on 

In galleries; but all that remains 

For us will be concrete and tyres.

 

Most things are never meant. 

This won’t be, most likely; but greeds 

And garbage are too thick-strewn 

To be swept up now, or invent 

Excuses that make them all needs. 

I just think it will happen, soon."

Going, Going by Philip Larkin, age 49 in 1972, seeing his world in decay

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June 20, 2017

"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Crowned with lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

 

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.

Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.

A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,

A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.

 

The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—

They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses.

Elegant and curled is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.

More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

 

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;

Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.

I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned."

Dirge Without Music by Edna  St. Vincent Millay, 1917

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June 11, 2017

"The book I wrote, The Outpost, remains the professional work I am proudest of. It is not what has resulted in the most Twitter memes, but it is the most meaningful. It was the one least about me; and it may be one professional achievement, maybe, perhaps, that has a chance of outlasting me. That which you end up doing in the service of something greater than youeven if it means that you feel lesser, humbler, even worthless by comparisonby honoring the humanity of others, that will allow you to get in closer touch with your own."

—Jake Tapper '91, 2017 commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 11th

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 168

May 18, 2017

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, January 11th 1818 

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May 7, 2017

"We felt we could change the culture by building around talented position players with high character. Baseball is a game with inherent adversity, and players who tend to respond to adversity in the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. [To determine whether a recruit has high character] We find out how he treats people when no one's looking, go talk to their girlfriend, go talk to their ex-girlfriend, go talk to their friends, go talk to their enemies." 

—Theo Epstein, President of Baseball Operations, Chicago Cubs

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May 4, 2017

“He is a man so sui generis, that I do not wonder at his not being apprehended till he is seen. His influence is of a curious sort. There is a vague nobleness and thorough sweetness about him, which move people to their very depths, without their being able to explain why. The logicians have an incessant triumph over him, but their triumph is of no avail. He conquers minds, as well as hearts, wherever he goes; and without convincing anybody’s reason of any one thing, exalts their reason, and makes their minds worth more than they ever were before.”

Harriet Martineau, writer, upon first hearing Ralph Waldo Emerson lecture, June 9th 1848

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April 2, 2017

"If I've learned one thing above all else, know what it is? What you put out into the world will always come back to you, but never how you predict."

—Thomas Coughlin, Live by Night

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March 8, 2017

"It is that laser beam of self-reflection that makes you the perfect partner. You are the key to me beating Doris."

 

"Who's Doris?"

 

"She's the Cobra Kai to my Daniel-san, and I swear on Earnest's clogged-up dead heart that that witch will not take our title!"

—Grandma Ruby, recruiting her goofy, unknowing grandson, Junior, to help her whoop up on old folks playing Spades at church, on ABC's Blackish

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February 27, 2017

"It's real simple: we playin' by Grandma's rules...you eat, you talk."

—Kevin, Moonlight

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February 27, 2017

"There's a new ambition: to get on disability. Or, if you look at data on unemployed young males, it's amazing (A) How many live at home, (B) How much time they spend playing video games, and (C) How few have a driver's license. The sense of urgency of, say, fifty to sixty years ago, is gone. And when you look at information technology, our most dynamic sector, what do people use it to do? To have Amazon ship them packages, and to watch Netflix at home. Again, it's just all very comfortable, and not at all dynamic from a macro point of view."

—Economist Tyler Cowen, describing findings from his latest, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

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February 26, 2017

"One person standing on the word of God is a majority." 

—Maya Angelou

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February 24, 2017

"I think he [Christopher Hitchens] would be very active in the resistance. He would have more or less ignored Trump himself. He thought Bill Clinton was a titanic vulgarian. He would have jumped out of his shoes to see Trump in his pomp. I think he would have gone for Steve Bannon. He would have honed in on Steve Bannon, who revealed himself yesterday as a semi-literate neurotic when he said, 'Every morning, President Trump tells Reince and I....' He means Reince and me. I mean, that's a gross illiteracy. The idea of him being an intellectual is laughable. He's another neurotic windbag."

—Welsh author and Oxford graduate, Martin Amis, drowning in superiority as he sizes up the state of American politics and one whom he perceives as just another Harvard hack

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February 24, 2017

"Christopher would have said, 'Look to the language.' First, with Trump, the incredible poverty and paucity of his language. We remember 'the nattering nabobs of negativity,' well that's what's coming out of Bannon's and Trump's mouths now. The idea that Bannon is the intellectual heavyweight and ideologue of this kind of supranationalist wing of the Republican Party is, like, laughable."

—Carol Blue, widow of writer Christopher Hitchens, describinga bit ironicallyhow her late husband might have sized up President Trump

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February 24, 2017

"It's like Swiss cheese, just full of holes. Hitchens was deeply well read and an interpreter of modern life, and Bannon is sort of a Goldman Sachs/hack/wannabe producer in Hollywood who kind of stumbled on, after 9/11, this philosophy of raw American nationalism, kind of thoughtless. I do think he [Hitchens] would have aimed for Bannon, this sort of intellectual poser, but there's no way Christopher Hitchens would have voted for Hillary Clinton."

—Historian Douglas Brinkley, waxing philosophically about fellow Houstonian, Christopher Hitchens, and possible views he might have about D.C. operators

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February 19, 2017

"I have become so accustomed to unpleasant thoughts and hardships 'til that has become my new normal. Pain is my constant companion."

—Roger Stringer, whose 15-year-old son, Zach, was wrongfully convicted of murdering his 11-year-old baby brother, Justin. After serving five years of a twenty-year sentence, Zach has been released on good behavior. The Stringer's pursue overturning the conviction.  

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February 18, 2017

"We've killed God. We've eliminated hierarchy. The only remaining altar is man's ambition, to feel superior to other men."

 

"There is no cure. The solution is disease, because once diseased, there is hope for a cure."

—Institute Director Volmer, as if Nietzsche had written Faust who had, in turn, screenwritten the more-than-a-little-bit-creepy A Cure for Wellness

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February 14, 2017

“After many months of looking around, we happened to meet and she just blew me away. She has this sort of energy that makes every problem seem surmountable.”

Damien Chazelle, screenwriter and director of La La Land, describing choreographer Mandy Moore

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January 28, 2017

"Let us neither express, nor cherish, any harsh feeling toward any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling."

—Abraham Lincoln

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January 27, 2017

"Now, at 86, I've seen a lot of people get older, and I've never seen anyone who felt good about their children but felt bad about their life. I've seen plenty of people with lots of money, where it hasn't worked out well for the family (either they didn't feel good about their children, or their children didn't feel good about them). Either way, they failed. At the most important teaching job they had. Sometimes it happens for extraneous reasons, but I've really never met anybody, regardless their economic circumstances, who felt their life was a failure who felt good about their children...whom they brought into the world. Success in business—but failure in the home—is failure in life."

—Warren Buffett 

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January 18, 2017

"Davos is where billionaires tell millionaires how the middle class feels."

—George Will

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January 17, 2017

"What that mean to me? 'Bonnie working.'  I don’t care if she working! Go ask her for the ten dollars if she working. Talking about 'Bonnie working.' Why ain’t you working?"

—Troy Maxson, Fences, by August Wilson

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January 16, 2017

"Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way."

—Rod Longuestte (and https://bit.ly/1XmrgGW) 

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January 14, 2017

"You should let me take your picture sometime."

 

"No thanks. I'm with the Cherokee on this one: the fewer photographs out there of me, the better."

Live by Night's reclusive mobster Joe Coughlin responding to an otherwise kind offer from Miguel

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January 14, 2017

"Watch out for this one; he's rat tricky."

—RD Pruitt, Live by Night

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January 13, 2017

"Think before you bark!"

—The illogical words I contemplate shouting at our yappy, yappy, yappy pup

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January 11, 2017

"To Mom for showing me I could, to Dad for insisting I must, and to Frank, Shun, and Tom for showing me how."

—Bud Shaw, MD, one of America's liver transplant pioneers, in his dedication in Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

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January 11, 2017

"Is you is or is you ain't got gas money?"

All Night, Chance the Rapper

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January 6, 2017

"So here's what we know: it's definitely 'Chicken on a Stick.' And your play is going to be a triumph."

—Sebastian, La La Land

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January 5, 2017

"Hope is essential to life. Just as the body cannot live without dreams, the soul cannot live without hope."

—Elie Wiesel

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December 30, 2016

“I'm back, I'm back

Prouder than ever baby

Louder than ever maybe

 

One more pill, just one more beer

One less star in the atmosphere for us

 

So I just kept breathing my friends

Waiting for the man to choose

Saying this ain't the day that it ends

'Cause there's no white light and I'm not through

 

I'm alive, I'm alive...

 

And I've got so much more that I want to do with the music

Was it music that saved me?

Or the way that you prayed for me?

Guess either way, I thank you I'm alive

 

And tomorrow is mine, I said tomorrow is mine

Said I just got to keep on breathing

I said no, don't let go breathing, breathing...

Got to keep on, got to keep on, got to keep on

I just got to keep on breathing

 

I'm alive, I'm alive...

 

And I've got so much more that I want to give

Was it music?

Was it science that saved me?

Or the way that you prayed and prayed for me?

 

Well I thank you I'm alive.”

White Light by George Michael (1963-2016); inspired by his near-death 2011 bout with pneumonia, and introduced to the world at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony as the lead single to his sixth studio album.

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December 18, 2016

"The white helmets respond to an average of 35 attacks a day, fighting for life in a vicious war. They were nominated this year for a Nobel Peace Prize. Syria has descended into murder on an industrial scale, but on the outer limits of cruelty, humanity begins."

—Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes

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December 9, 2016

"Danny had this great, really interesting idea: to explore the happiness people anticipate from some experience, compared to the happiness they actually experience in the moment, compared to the happiness they remember from the experience. These are different forms of what [behavioral] economists would call 'utility'—expected, experienced, and remembered. This is [just one example of] work that didn't get done."

—Author Michael Lewis (on his press junket for The Undoing Projectdescribing one of Daniel Kahneman's and Amos Tversky's many brilliant research ideas and, by extension, the fertility of their collaborative minds.

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December 8, 2016

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

—Voltaire

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December 8, 2016

"Zero G, and I feel fine."

—John Glenn, 1921-2016

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December 7, 2016

"I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds, able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, but I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard.”

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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December 6, 2016

"What we're currently seeing is an adhocracy...telephone diplomacy. Not yet a coherent strategy. The President-Elect said one of America's weaknesses is its predictability [so we're starting to see the alternative in action]."

—Richard Haass, describing [a week in the life of Trump]... (1) his phone call with Taiwan's president, coming on the heels of (2) a verbal agreement with Carrier to keep 730 jobs in the United States, and (3) a $50B investment/50,000 U.S. employees deal with Japan's SoftBank billionaire Masayoshi Son.

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December 5, 2016

"Oh! The theme I've been waiting for all my life. Listen to this sentence: 'A Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.' Poetry. Sheer poetry, Ralph! An A++++++++!"

—Miss Shields (clutching Ralphie's theme to her bosom) in 1983's holiday classic, A Christmas Story

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December 4, 2016

"What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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December 3, 2016

"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

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December 2, 2016

"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government, for that government is best which governs not at all, and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."

—Henry David Thoreau

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December 1, 2016

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not—when I came to die—discover that I had not lived."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 30, 2016

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 29, 2016

"Beware all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 28, 2016

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?"

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 27, 2016

"My greatest skill has been to want but little."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 26, 2016

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 25, 2016

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 24, 2016

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company—even with the best—is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 23, 2016

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 22, 2016

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips...not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."

—Henry David Thoreau

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November 21, 2016

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

—Pablo Picasso

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November 20, 2016

"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."

Clarence [the angel],

It’s a Wonderful Life

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November 19, 2016

"I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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November 18, 2016

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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November 17, 2016

"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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November 16, 2016

“Yet in opinions look not always back—

Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track;

Leave what you've done for what you have to do;

Don't be ‘consistent,’ but be simply true."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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November 15, 2016

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” 

Charlotte Bronte

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November 15, 2016

“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”

Bryant McGill

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November 14, 2016

“A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.” 

Arthur Schopenhauer

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November 13, 2016

"Behold, a new commandment I give you: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are to love one another."

—John 13:34 

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November 13, 2016

"I love you, America! I love your process in all its beauty and tragedy."7

 

* * * 

 

"I think [this is important to say]…because they’re marching up the street as we speak [anti-Trump protesters]. A few weeks ago, I went to the White House for a party. It was the first time I had been there in many years and it was very exciting, and BET had sponsored the party...and I thought about how happy everybody was, these people who had been historically disenfranchised. And it made me feel hopeful, and it made me feel proud to be an American, and it made me very happy about the prospects of our country. So—in that spirit—I’m wishing Donald Trump luck, and I’m going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too. Thank you very much.”6


* * * 

 

"I'm not giving up, and neither should you."5

 

* * * 

 

"We don't know whether our next president is Nebuchadnezzar (Chaldean king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned from 605-562 BC; identified by Daniel and Jeremiah as an agent of God used to curse faithless followers of Yahweh; responsible for the destruction of the Jewish temple and perpetrator of the Babylonian Exile) or Cyrus (the pagan king who, ironically, served as patron and deliverer of the Jews, allowing them to return to Israel after seventy years’ captivity, and who ultimately rebuilt their temple in Jerusalem using funds from his royal treasury), but we do know that we are to neither be fearful nor prideful; we are commanded to pray for our leaders."4

 

* * * 

 

“Last night I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans.

 

I still believe in America, and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.

 

Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power. We don't just respect that. We cherish it. It also enshrines the rule of law; the principle we are all equal in rights and dignity; freedom of worship and expression. We respect and cherish these values, too, and we must defend them.

 

Let me add: Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time. So let's do all we can to keep advancing the causes and values we all hold dear. I count my blessings every single day that I am an American, and I still believe, as deeply as I ever have, that if we stand together and work together with respect for our differences, strengthen our convictions, and love for this nation, our best days are still ahead of us. Because, you know, I believe we are stronger together and we will go forward together. And you should never, ever regret fighting for that.

 

You know, scripture tells us, let us not grow weary of doing good, for in good season we shall reap. My friends, let us have faith in each other; let us not grow weary and lose heart, for there are more seasons to come and there is more work to do.

 

I am incredibly honored and grateful to have had this chance to represent all of you in this consequential election. May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America.”3

 

* * * 

 

“We all want what’s best for this country. That’s what I heard when I spoke to him directly. And I was heartened by that. I hope that he maintains that spirit throughout this transition, and I certainly hope that’s how his presidency has a chance to begin.

 

It is no secret that the president-elect and I have some pretty significant differences. Now, everybody is sad when their side loses an election, but the day after we have to remember that we’re actually all on one team. We’re not Democrats first. We’re not Republicans first. We are Americans first. Because we are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country. The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. And over the next few months, we are going to show that to the world.

 

Keep your heads up, because your work has left the next president with a stronger, better country than the one that existed eight years ago.”2

 

* * * 

 

“Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division. We have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people.

 

I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, I'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country.

 

As I've said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement, made up of millions of hard-working men and women who love their country and want a better, brighter future for themselves and for their family.

 

It is a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will.

 

Working together we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the American dream. I've spent my entire life in business, looking at the untapped potential in projects and in people all over the world.

 

That is now what I want to do for our country. Tremendous potential. I've gotten to know our country so well. Tremendous potential. It is going to be a beautiful thing. Every single American will have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”1

in the wake of this week’s tumultuous Presidential Election

 

 

7 Lindsay Combes Ray, November 9, 2016 

6 Dave Chappelle, November 12, 2016 

5 Kate McKinnon, November 12, 2016

4 Ron Holton, November 13, 2016

3 Hillary Clinton, November 9, 2016  

2 President Barack Obama, November 9, 2016  

1 President Elect Donald Trump, November 9, 2016 

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November 12, 2016

“If we shadows have offended, 

Think but this, and all is mended,

That you have but slumbered here

While these visions did appear.

And this weak and idle theme,

No more yielding but a dream,

Gentles, do not reprehend:

If you pardon, we will mend:

And, as I am an honest Puck,

If we have unearned luck

Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,

We will make amends ere long;

Else the Puck a liar call;

So, good night unto you all.

Give me your hands, if we be friends,

And Robin shall restore amends.”

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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November 11, 2016

"Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen,

Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow men."

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592

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November 11, 2016

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

Jim Ramstad, U.S. House of Representatives, Minnesota's 3rd District

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November 10, 2016

“I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.”

 

* * *

 

"I always wanted to be paid for my work, but I didn't want to work for pay."

 

* * *

 

"I did my best, it wasn't much 

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you 

And even though it all went wrong 

I'll stand before the Lord of Song 

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah."

Leonard Cohen (who passed earlier this week at the age of 82) reflecting on his disposition, approach to career, and lyrics from Hallelujah, his most notable work.

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November 9, 2016

"Sometimes you just have to sit back and process. I'm gonna need a minute."

—Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, 2:05AM, alongside sixteen incredulous and gobsmacked ABC News colleagues/commentators as the crawl made its way across the screen: BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT ELECT, DONALD J. TRUMP

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 101

November 8, 2016

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” 

—Abraham Lincoln

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 99

November 6, 2016

“Lord, help me get one more. One more.” 

Private Desmond T. Doss, medic in the U.S. Army’s 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division, who—on May 1, 1945 while serving on Okinawa's bloody Hacksaw Ridge—saved the lives of 75 comrades, one by one, for which he received the distinguished Medal of Honor from President Harry S. Truman. 

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 100

November 6, 2016

“You’ll remember that on Election Night 2012, I told you ‘the Republican Party is Mad Men living in a Modern Family world.’ On Tuesday, November 8th, the American people will perform the Party's autopsy, and on Wednesday the Democrats will have to find a way to govern in a nation not so divided since the Civil War."

—Matthew Dowd

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 97

November 4, 2016

"Slake, canticle, avuncular, super attenuated, elegy. There, I said it."

—John Lithgow

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 79

November 3, 2016

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

—Ernest Hemingway

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 95

November 3, 2016

“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that people who have the most live the longest.”

—My sassy dentist's office, via e-bot on that special day

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 91

November 2, 2016

 “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” 

—Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 94

November 2, 2016

“If an election was called, she’d win by North Korean landslide.”

Peter Morgan (writer, Rush, Frost/Nixon, The Last King of Scotland, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Queen, and 2016’s Netflix breakout, The Crown) regarding Queen Elizabeth II’s popularity.

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 77

November 1, 2016

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish themwords shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” 

—Stephen King

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 73

October 31, 2016

“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.”

Judith Olney

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 74

October 31, 2016

“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.”

Robert Brault

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 75

October 31, 2016

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

—Edgar Allan Poe

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 69

October 30, 2016

“Today, of course, our paranoia about child safety has reached this fabulous zenith whereby kids are only allowed to trick-or-treat accompanied by an adult…but back in the blithe, porno-soaked, latch-key seventies, the idea of trick-or-treating with a parent in tow was unthinkable—like publicly disclosing a preference for Barry Manilow. And yes, we heard plenty of tales about creepy old men sinking razors into caramel apples. But this only added an allure of risk to the endeavor.”

Steve Almond, “Night of the Living Freak,” Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 70

October 30, 2016

"Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story."

Mason Cooley

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 71

October 30, 2016

“Never let your kids buy an off-the-shelf Halloween costume. Forbid it, no matter how close you may be to the witching hour. Instead, help them make their own. Encourage them to use their imagination and their ingenuity. Show them that what can be created is often better than what can be bought. And besides, don't the darkest, most frightening things live inside us anyway?”

Joe Kita, "The Best Halloween Costume,” Wisdom of Our Fathers

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 72

October 30, 2016

“I'm a great lover of visual art and I will happily discuss the color and texture of Van Gogh's Starry Night…but I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts, snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipop sticks all akimbo, the foil ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.

 

And more so, the pleasure of pouring out the contents onto the rug in the TV room, of cataloging the take according to a strict Freak Hierarchy, calling for all chocolate products to be immediately quarantined, sorted, and closely guarded, with higher-quality fruit chews and caramels next, then hard candies, and last of all anything organic (the loathsome raisins). A brief period of barter with my brothers might ensue. For the most part, I simply lay amid my trove and occasionally massed the candy into a pile which I could sort of dive into, à la Scrooge McDuck and his gold ducats.”

Steve Almond, “Night of the Living Freak,” Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

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October 29, 2016

“The rhythms of freak are ruled by the holiday calendar, and specifically by Halloween, which as we all know, can be traced back to All Hallows' Eve, an ancient religious rite in which priests raced around the streets of Dublin throwing snack-size Snickers bars at impoverished children.” 

Steve Almond, “Night of the Living Freak,” Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

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October 29, 2016

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 1887

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 66

October 28, 2016

"It's hard to believe. [The honor is] amazing, incredible. Whoever dreams about something like that? The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless. I appreciate the honor so much."

 

Will he attend the Stockholm ceremony on December 10th to accept his award?

 

"Absolutely, if it's at all possible." 

Bob Dylan, after fifteen days of radio silence regarding his Nobel Prize for Literature which, beyond affirmation, also includes $900,000 if he provides—in accordance with academy statutes—a public presentation (e.g., lecture, concert, etc.) "on a subject relevant to the work for which the prize has been awarded" within six months of accepting.

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 92

October 27, 2016

"You talk too much, and then, not at all."

Elizabeth Sinskey to Robert Langdon, Inferno

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 64

October 26, 2016

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things—a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a newsstand—I am tempted to think there are no little things.

—Bruce Barton

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 60

October 25, 2016

"A fertile mind makes the garden ever green."

—Pray Tell

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October 23, 2016

“Live in such a way that if anyone should speak poorly of you, no one would believe it.”

—Pray Tell

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October 23, 2016

"I think that the Republican Party can survive a Donald Trump candidacy. I have a really hard time believing that the Republican Party can withstand a Donald Trump presidency."

Cyndra Cole, a lifelong and historically staunch Republican voter from Ohio, describing her zugzwang dilemma on CBS's 60 Minutes with Scott Pelley

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October 22, 2016

“In everything, set others an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness, and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

Titus 2:7-8

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 55

October 22, 2016

“Preacher was a-talkin’, there’s a sermon he gave / He said every man’s conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide / When it’s you who must keep it satisfied.” (Man in the Long Black Coat, 1989)

 

“I try my best / To be just like I am / But everybody wants you / To be just like them / They sing while you slave / And I just get bored.” (Maggie's Farm, 1965)

 

“The kerosene is brought down from the castles / By insurance men who go / Check to see that nobody is escaping / To Desolation Row.” (Desolation Row, 1965)

 

“I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies / I ain’t lookin' for nothin' in anyone’s eyes.” (Not Dark Yet, 1997)

 

“Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth / You’re an idiot, babe / It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.” (Idiot Wind, 1975)

 

“How can the life of such a man / Be in the palm of some fool’s hand? / To see him obviously framed / Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed / To live in a land / Where justice is a game.” (Hurricane, 1975)

 

“Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’ / Up the road, around the bend / Heart burnin’, still yearnin’ / In the last outback at the world’s end.” (Ain't Talkin', 2006)

 

“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes / You’d know what a drag it is to see you.” (Positively 4th Street, 1965)

 

*** 

 

"It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe

 

If you don't know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter anyhow

 

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm travelin' along
Don't think twice, it's alright

 

Well, it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road

 

Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's alright

 

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more

 

I'm a-thinkin' and a-wonderin' walkin down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's alright

 

So I'm walkin' down that long lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well

 

I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's alright."

 

(Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, 1962)

Bob Dylan, recipient of the 2016 Nobel Literature Prize (announced 10/13/2016), and who has been subsequently described as "impolite and arrogant" by Swedish academy member/writer, Per Wästberg. Dylan has neither returned calls from the academy nor acknowledged the prize publicly. A concert, given the day of the announcement, ended with his cover of Frank Sinatra's hit, Why Try to Change Me Now, interpreted by many as a dis regarding his longstanding aversion to attention and the media. At the time of this writing, he is not expected in Stockholm on December 10th to accept his Nobel.

 

(Filed under the category "More than I Care to Know, Blake," Barack Obama describes his own 2010 encounter with Dylan when the latter performed at the White House. “Here’s what I love about Dylan: he was exactly as you’d expect he would be. He wouldn’t come to the rehearsal; usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening. He didn’t want to take a picture with me; usually, all the talent is dying to take a picture with me and Michelle before the show, but he didn’t show up to that. He came in and played, The Times They Are A-Changin’. A beautiful rendition. The guy is so steeped in this stuff that he can just come up with some new arrangement, and the song sounds completely different. Finishes the song, steps off the stage―I’m sitting right in the front row―comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little grin, and then leaves. And that was it―then he left. That was our only interaction with him and I thought, ‘That’s how you want Bob Dylan, right?’ You don’t want him to be all cheesin’ and grinnin’ with you. You want him to be a little skeptical about the whole enterprise. So that was a real treat.”)

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October 21, 2016

"The cinema is truth twenty-four frames per second."

Jean-Luc Godard

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October 21, 2016

"I spark him, then he sparks me, or, as George Furth said, 'I collaborate him, then he collaborates me.'"

—Stephen Sondheim, riffing about the writing process with partner John Weidman to Lin-Manuel Miranda on PBS's Hamilton's America

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 48

October 20, 2016

"One play, you're on top of the world. Next play, the world is on top of you."

NFL hopeful, Jeremiah Allison, on NFL Network's Undrafted

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October 20, 2016

"Sharks gotta swim and bats gotta fly. These people are who they are."

Commentator Jeff Greenfield, summarizing Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's behavior in their third and final Presidential debate

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October 19, 2016

Woods: "The only regret I have in life is not spending another year at Stanford, and I wish I would've had one more year."

Rose: "That's the only regret?" 

Woods: "That's the only regret. I wish I had [graduated]."

Rose: "Of all the things that've happened to you?"

Woods: "All the things and that's all...."

Rose: "Everything?" 

Woods: "All the things I’ve been through are tough, yes. They’ve been tough, but they’ve been great for me, but I wish I would’ve gone one more year at Stanford."

Rose: “And your children? Have you told them your regrets?”

Woods: "No. No. I don’t. I haven’t said that. I said everybody makes mistakes, and the reason why Mommy’s living in her house and Daddy’s living in his house is because Daddy made mistakes, and it’s okay."

—Tiger Woods with Charlie Rose, working hard on what Nike co-founder and Chairman Emeritus Phil Knight describes as “Tiger's Chapter 2 pivot,” which focuses primarily on “TGR” (the Tiger Woods business empire), the Tiger Woods Foundation, and a lesser attempt to return to golf after seven major surgeries, three of which have included back surgery.

 

Woods admits he may never win another major, or he may win fourteen more. Either way, he—and those around him—spend far more time apologizing and dodging questions than they do talking about golf. It is Act II, Scene 1 in the Greek Tragedy. (Jack Nicklaus holds the record with 18 majors. When asked by Roseso near after the passing of Arnold Palmer"Who's the greatest golfer to have ever played the game?" Woods replied, "I like to think I'm pretty good.")

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 47

October 17, 2016

“What went through my head, really, was, ‘Uh, I got one of those too.’ [I really think the kid] could choose another career path, ‘cause that sucks, the one that he picked.”

—Cigarette store clerk, opining on the would be robber, who entered brandishing a pistol, and left tripping backward over the curb with a bullet wound to his left shoulder. The clerk returned fire with a cigarette in his hand.

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 46

October 16, 2016

"Do you want a snack?"

"No, it'll spoil my hunger."

—Day 9,857 (not that anyone's counting)

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 45-1

October 15, 2016

“Giddy on up.”

 

“The day after my girlfriend threw away my favorite shirt, I started working on Marine Layer. I was prolly crazy to quit my job and spend a year trying to make the perfect fabric. But you know what they say, one man’s crazy is another man’s favorite new shirt? Well, they should say that.”

 

“It took me over a year to make the first shirt, so I convinced my best friend Adam to help me out. Once we got these lovely ladies, Xiao Ling and Fei, to help us with the cut and sew we were off and running. We opened up our first store about a year later and then bought this old bus to move our shirts from Xiao’s to the store. Since then we’ve gotten a bunch of friends to quit their real jobs and help us make some more shirts and open up a few more stores in some places we like to visit. Except for Burlingame. We opened a shop there and closed that s**t down fast. In fact, the only good thing about that store was the opening party we had at Shabu Shabu. I think I’m getting off track here though. Stop by one of the good stores some time and say hello. And buy some shirts please.”

 

In the old days, our general strategy for expansion was to open stores in cool places our 1969 VW bus would take us. Then we opened up a store in Chicago and the bus broke down halfway across the Bay Bridge, so we had to reevaluate. Now we just open stores in fun towns that we need an excuse to visit.”

 

“Heyo! Free shipping and returns!”

 

“Bam. We’ve got your order. Now grab a taco, relax, and we’ll let you know when it’s on the way.”

 

“Oh hey! Thanks for your order!”

 

“Boom. Your order has shipped.”

 

“The eagle has landed.”

 

"Behold. Your order has arrived."

 

"Yes...you look very good."

 

"Good, great, grand, wonderful? Ok, now you can recycle this and move on with your life."

 

"Handle this tag with care. It's attached to your new favorite shirt (or jacket or pants or scarf). You get it."

 

"Like my Little League coach told me, 'Lay off the high head.'"

 

"Responsibly Made, in China, by adults."

 

“Oh hey Blake, we are so sorry your order didn’t work out. Let’s make things right.”

 

“Need a one-way pen pal? Join the fam and sign-up for our emails.”

—Fun, snarky, irreverent, and altogether hilarious website text byand in correspondences withmarinelayer.com, and "CEO Mike" 

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October 12, 2016

"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear." 
 

* * *

 

"I'm not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost."

 

* * *

 

"I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.
"There there," said Piglet, "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do."

 

* * *

 

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."

 

* * *

 

"When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen."

 

* * *

 

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

 

* * *

 

"What I like doing best is Nothing."
"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.

"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.
It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
"Oh!" said Pooh."

 

* * *

 

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."

Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne

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October 5, 2016

"I used to pray for this or that, but now I pray, 'Lord, change my heart.'"

—Pray Tell

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October 5, 2016

"If there's one guy who's not changing, it's a seventy-year-old billionaire."

Mike Allen, Politico, regarding nominee Donald Trump

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October 4, 2016

"Fame is a sarcophagus."

Goodnight Robicheaux, The Magnificent Seven

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. the-tyger

October 2, 2016

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 
In the forests of the night; 
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 
On what wings dare he aspire? 
What the hand, dare seize the fire? 

And what shoulder, & what art, 
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 
And when thy heart began to beat, 
What dread hand? & what dread feet? 

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain? 
What the anvil? what dread grasp, 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp! 

When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears: 
Did he smile his work to see? 
Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 

Tyger Tyger burning bright, 
In the forests of the night: 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?"

The Tyger, William Blake, 1794

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September 26, 2016

"So shines a good deed in a weary world."

—Willy Wonka

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 37

September 25, 2016

"I've heard some peoplemany people's advicewho've said the candidates need to be themselves. I think they need to not be themselves. These are two candidates who are disliked and mistrusted by the majority of the country. Donald Trump has to figure out a way to be less visceral and more cerebral, and Hillary Clinton has to figure out how to be less cerebral and much more connected at a heart level. It's a little bit like The Wizard of Oz, with the tin man and the scarecrow: one has to show his brain and the other needs to show her heart."

 

"We're talking about Gennifer Flowers and Mark Cuban getting invited to the debate and not Gary Johnson?"

Matthew Dowd, ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 38

September 25, 2016

"No, George, come on...can't we have a little humor once in a while? And that is long term. I mean, plate tectonics. Long term, Africa and South America were at one time separated—and I'm talking now about the earth and the fact that we have existed for billions of years and will continue to going forward. Look, what it points to, also, is the fact that we do have to inhabit other planets. The future of the human race is space exploration."

—Gary Johnson, ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 36

September 24, 2016

"This next song is about a man in love. To a crazy woman. Whom he thought he could make well by marrying her."

 

"She wore combat boots on holy ground."

 

"Much has changed in Ireland, now that we've got the neighbors out of our garden."

 

"They’ll build a wall / a thousand miles long and a hundred miles tall / and for it, we shall pay its builders nothing at all."

—Irish singer/songwriter Glen Hansard in concert at Majestic Theater, Dallas, TX

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 35

September 20, 2016

"We are more than our latitude and longitude. Where we're from shouldn't define who we become."

Bono, on Charlie Rose

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. no-30

September 15, 2016

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands."

—Zora Neale Hurston

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. no-29

September 14, 2016

"I hope that one of the beauties of this museum being here will be an understanding and appreciation of the depth, of the pain, agony, and tragedy of slavery. I hope that the suffering from decade to decade to decade to decade will be understood in a very real and tangible way. I hope that the weight of the past will slow your gait and bow your head...and as you walk out of here that the sense of freedom, the sense of expectations will overwhelm you, and that you will feel responsible for making America the most amazing country for every single citizen in our land."

 

"If you ever want to get off track looking for solutions, speak with great emotion during an emotional time."

 

"Even though I'm angry, I'm not going to speak in anger."

—Tim Scott, R, South Carolina, and also regarding his hope for the National Museum of African American History and Culture opening September 24, 2016

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. no-28

September 10, 2016

“When I heard it, it sounded like a line from Despicable Me, something Gru might say to his minions: ‘Get me my ray gun, and a basket of deplorables!’ It’s never a good idea for a candidate to attack the voters.”

—Matthew Dowd

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. no-27

September 9, 2016

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’ Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people—now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks—they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”
Hillary Clinton
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September 3, 2016

“What is Aleppo?”
Gary Johnson, 2016 Presidential candidate
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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 98

August 23, 2016

"What you have is a lot of people looking at two dumpster fires and trying to figure out which one is burning just a little less brightly."

—Denny Burk, commiserating about Election 2016

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 96

August 22, 2016

“The creator of Spanx is a billionaire. Of course she is, because bacon and doughnuts are delicious!”

 

“I’ll be honest. I have a muffin top. By the way, that’s a stupid name for it. Muffin tops are moist and delicious, not jiggly. I blame my mother for my body issues. She once told me, ‘It looks like you have yeast in your butt and it’s still rising.’ I thank you, Mom, and my therapist thanks you.”

 

“Let me tell you something, not only do my thighs rub against each other, if I run too fast I’ll catch on fire. You can ba-da-bump all you want. This is a fact for me. I never ever wear corduroy pants for fear campers would start lining up to toast their marshmallows. Believe me, I have a complex about my thighs. And my muffin top. And my arms. That’s just the top of the list. My body is a work in progress. I cannot hate it. I’ve been through so much with it. Yes, sometimes I navigate the stormy weather of my life with too much chocolate or pasta. I don’t work out as much as I’d like to. Every time I step in to a dressing room I see a lifetime of choices that have led to this body—some good, some less than good. But I have a life that is filled with great memories and so many of them involve food and drink: anchovy pizza with my dad, the fabulous chilaquiles my mom makes, drinking a hearty pint of Guinness at a Pub in Ireland with my husband, drinking a glass of Moscato with the late great Wine Diva, Chris Ward Blumer. So yeah, my thighs rub against each other, but I don’t let that rub me the wrong way. Ba-da-bump.”

Patty Vasquez, comedienne

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 93

August 21, 2016

"I've got litmuses, you guys!" the woman shouts to uproarious laughter: "First, men who wear diamond-studded wedding rings are GAMIN'. Two, women with more men friends than women friends are cray-cray. And three, adult women who call their dad 'Daddy' are Trouble with a capital T! Well, at least back home they were! Trust me on this!"

 

<the crowd goes wild>

 

A man on the back row is heard muttering to himself, "My litmus is women with litmuses."

—Pray Tell

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 90

August 20, 2016

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”

—Neil Gaiman

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 89

August 19, 2016

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

—Mark Twain

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 88

August 18, 2016

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” 

—Anaïs Nin

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 87

August 17, 2016

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

—Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 86

August 16, 2016

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

—Anton Chekhov

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 85

August 15, 2016

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

—William Faulkner

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 84

August 13, 2016

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 82

August 12, 2016

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

—Robert Frost

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 83

August 12, 2016

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 81

August 11, 2016

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 80

August 10, 2016

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

—Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 78

August 9, 2016

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

—Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 76

August 8, 2016

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.”

 

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

 

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”

 

“By the time I was fourteen, the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

 

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

 

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

 

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel s**t from a sitting position.”

 

“Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

 

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

 

“But it’s writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can’t or won’t, it’s time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”

 

“Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”

 

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

 

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

 

“Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”

—Stephen King, On Writing

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 62

August 7, 2016

“We drank a toast to innocence

We drank a toast to now

We tried to reach beyond the emptiness

But neither one knew how.”

Same Old Lang Syne, by Dan Fogelberg

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 61

August 6, 2016

"I wonder what Terence Trent D'Arby is doing RIGHT NOW!?!" 

"Nothing. He's Sananda Maitreya."

—Pray Tell

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 58

August 5, 2016

"Any man is liable to err; only a fool persists in error."

—Cicero

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 57

August 4, 2016

"I called it Mariah, from the theme from Paint Your Wagon—'They call the wind Mariah.' It resonated with me: the ocean has boundaries, the forest has boundaries...but the wind is free. It was very naive, because no one understood the name apart from me."

Founded in 1976, Larry Burke's upstart magazine then proceeded to purchase Outside from Rolling Stone in 1978 and today boasts 2.8 million monthly readers

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 56

August 3, 2016

Q: "What was your reaction when you saw the battered vehicles?"

A: "Ah, I won't lie. It hurt. I knew it was going to happen, but still...ouch."

Dave Warner, Land Rover Lead Engineer in charge of providing seventeen vehicles and forty kits of spare parts for James Bond's Spectre

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 54

August 2, 2016

"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."

Invictus, by William Ernest Henley

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 53

August 1, 2016

"No man steps in the same river twice."

—Heraclitus

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 34

July 18, 2016

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."

—Euripedes

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July 15, 2016

"We are the music makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

And sitting by desolate streams;—

World-losers and world-forsakers,

On whom the pale moon gleams:

Yet we are the movers and shakers

Of the world for ever, it seems."

Ode, by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 32

July 13, 2016

"Gossip looks ugly on you."

—Pray Tell

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. no-25

July 11, 2016

"Our strengths are our weaknesses."

—Pray Tell

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 31

July 10, 2016

“Pride is lining, not topcoat, a feeling best worn on the inside to keep oneself warm.”

Pray Tell

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July 6, 2016

“We may not deserve happiness, but we may pursue it.”
Thomas Jefferson
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July 5, 2016

“I'm relieved I don't have to speak [at mother's memorial]. We're not word people.”
West Virginia daughter
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July 4, 2016

“Someone once told me, ‘Your guitar sounds like bacon smells.’”
Bonnie Raitt
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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. no-21

June 24, 2016

“What is to give light must endure the burning.”
Viktor Frankl
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June 21, 2016

"It's hard to hate up close."
Sondra A. Christie
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June 20, 2016

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

—African proverb

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June 17, 2016

“Speak in anger and you shall make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
Ambrose Bierce
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June 16, 2016

"Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be grateful. Conceit is self-given; be careful."
John Wooden
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June 14, 2016

"The most interesting people are the most interested."
Olivia Wilde
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June 13, 2016

“A tight fuze is a happy fuze.”

 

“It’s only going to get worse.”

 

"Let’s put a whiz bang on that ding dong."

—Words painted on the side of a missile

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June 10, 2016

“In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
Erasmus
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June 9, 2016

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast, but Politics is cook, server, and toothpick."
Pray Tell
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June 7, 2016

“You’re just one ‘business brain’ away from exponentially growing your ministry.”
Brandon Graham, advising a leader
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June 6, 2016

“I got CAPS LOCK in my hand.”
Nick, who (judging from his flip charts), is only capable of writing in longhand using UPPER CASE LETTERS
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June 5, 2016

"Those who so vigorously rationalize, excuse, or defend the reasons for their organization’s mediocrity are obliged to remain mediocre."
Pray Tell
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June 4, 2016

“Even broken crayons color.”
an overheard mother to her daughter, shared courtesy of Amanda McDaniel
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June 2, 2016

“belly button”

“job jar”

“word wall”

—Hugh Yeomans, using language one could eat with a spoon

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June 2, 2016

“I said to Hank Williams, ‘How lonely does it get?’ / Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet, / but I hear him coughing…all night long / a hundred floors above me / in the Tower of Song.”

Leonard Cohen & U2, Tower of Song, from I’m Your Man

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June 2, 2016

“At the end of the day, it’s a movie. This is not curing cancer. This is not eradicating poverty. This is just making a movie.”

—Katie McGrath, to her husband of nineteen years, JJ Abrams, regarding Star Wars

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June 1, 2016

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made."

Immanuel Kant, 1784 essay, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

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May 31, 2016

“Power became vegetarian.”
Anna Akhmatova, modernist poet, describing Russia under Khrushchev’s leadership after February 25, 1956
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May 30, 2016

“The music is shimmering and epic.”
Dr. Patrick Peringer
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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 133

May 28, 2016

"Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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May 27, 2016

"Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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May 26, 2016

"Character is that which can do without success."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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May 25, 2016

"Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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May 24, 2016

“I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world."

 

“Dreams is full of mystery and magic. Do not try to understand them.”

The Big Friendly Giant, by Roald Dahl

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For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. no-1

May 23, 2016

“Two days after Paul died, I wrote a journal entry addressed to Cady: ‘When someone dies, people tend to say great things about him. Please know that all the wonderful things people are saying now about your dad are true. He really was that good and that brave.’

 

Reflecting on his purpose, I often think of lyrics from the hymn derived from The Pilgrim’s Progress:

 

‘Who would true valour see,

Let him come hither…

Then fancies fly away,

He’ll fear not what men say,

He’ll labour night and day

To be a pilgrim.’

 

Paul’s decision to look death in the eye was a testament not just to who he was in the final hours of his life, but who he had always been. For much of life, Paul wondered about death—and whether he could face it with integrity. In the end, the answer was yes. I was his wife and a witness.”

—Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, epilogue, When Breath Becomes Air, 2016

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