It was “Isaak Dinesen’s” as well as one that was quoted a bit in many venues in the 70’s. Can’t fault it: Navigare necesse est; vivere non est necesse… From Plutarch , if a borrowing; even then; also recently attributed to everyone up to William Burroughs, who did not say it first– though he used …
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Why read, from Dr Johnson a LONG time ago: “Some read that they may embellish their conversation, or shine in dispute; some that they may not be detected in ignorance, or want the reputation of literary accomplishments: but the most general and prevalent reason of study is the impossibility of finding another amusement equally cheap …
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From Samuel Beckett, his code, said well other ways too. But I like this one’s Zen stoicism: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better.”
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“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” (Chesterton, via Arthur Kover and John “Johnny UK” Hill).
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“… he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.” – Michael Ondaatje, sent in by Teddy Moritz
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“For now he was awake and knew No one is ever spared except in dreams” W. H. Auden
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” You should be polite as long as possible and, when you can’t be polite any more, don’t run.”–Daniel Woodrell, Ozark “noir” novelist. This one is so good it may make it to the header. I have not been feeling polite lately.
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“I hate vacations.”– travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux in a recent interview. We are off for a week to see Deep Springs– more a mini- adventure than a “vacation”– besides, I will be working on my proposals. Internet access is at best intermittent there– it is far more remote than Magdalena — so do …
And still another quote
Pancho Villa’s dying words, spoken to a journalist after he was shot by assassins in 1923: “Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”
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From Rob Sheffield in the current Men’s Journal: “When you marry somebody, you are guaranteeing that you will have real problems, a future full of them, the kind that involve death and disease and grief… I know other husbands are afraid of this stuff. I have been afraid of it too, and when bad things …