--YOU KISSED A GIRL AND YOU LIKED IT
…I had this piece, “The Rinse Cycle” up
at Cease, Cows:
…Last week I was called “a modern master”
and someone else called me “brilliant.”
Really? No way. Half the time I don’t even feel like a real
writer. Half the time I wonder if I don’t
suck. But I’ll admit the comments felt
awfully nice.
…Here are some things I like to start a
new week:
"Outside
of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to
read." -- Groucho Marx
"If a
man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I have
simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day
came."
Abraham Lincoln
"I'm
trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know." Lawrence
Durrel
"I'm completely optimistic
- I know the end is coming!" Lydia Lunch
"You
must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
"I'm no
hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time
like everyone else." Tina, "Bob's Burgers"
"Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Gandhi
"For
man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most
vividly, most perfectly alive." D. Lawrence
"I am what is changing
secretly in you." Paul Valéry
"Most
of us can, if we choose, make this world either a prison or a palace." L.
Avebury
"We
each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by
what we do with it." Mary Blake
"To
write is to talk to strangers." Tracy Kidder
"Reading
is not only entertainment; it is a kind of silent conversation with ourselves…
We are taken out of ourselves and moved more deeply into the process of
living." PW
" ... Think of
being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if
you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous
world the Asian Taoists call the Ten Thousand Things? And if the darkness just
got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you even
know the difference? ..." Denis Johnson
"In
things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be
insane on proper occasions." Henry Beecher
"Sometimes
we just can't save ourselves from stupid." Men's Health
"Real
heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because
they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments." Kevin
Costner
"Take
time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go
in." Andrew Jackson
"You’ll never plough a field by turning it
over in your mind." Irish proverb
"Don't
write what you know, write what you feel." Alice Hoffman
"The
deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
William James
"Discovery
consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has
thought." Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
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