"No one would tell you the way. You must go further, hit things, go with wrong directions, meet wrong people and get lost until you know your way." - via Roadtrip Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“So, then, in general metaphysical terms, our expression is that, like a purgatory, all that is commonly called "existence," which we call Intermediateness, is quasi-existence, neither real nor unreal, but expression of attempt to become real, or to generate for or recruit a real existence.” ― Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.” ― Charles de Lint Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“I do a weird thing when I am nervous where I tilt my head back like I am super confident. This is my attempt to fake it until I make it, or at the very least make it easier for someone to slit my throat.” ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“i took a night drive. i needed to get away. i needed to know it's okay to go and have no destination, where time moves slow or doesn't exist. that life can be like this, aimless wandering, just breathing, living, driving forever underneath the stars.” ― Ava, You Are Safe Here. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The wizards were good at wind, weather being a matter not of force but of lepidoptery. As Archchancellor Ridcully said, you just had to know where the damn butterflies were.” ― Terry Pratchett Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.” ― Carson McCullers, The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began,” Ison said.
Darlene Ringle: "Good. His reaction to it is self-evident enough that to follow up with a particular Gore Vidal remark would be redundantly stating the obvious." --Swanning in Tupper Town APPENDED: "Twenty-four years later, on Wednesday, August 28, at nine-thirty o'clock, in full view of ten million people, the little door in William F. Buckley Jr.'s forehead suddenly opened and out sprang that wild cuckoo which I had always known was there but had wanted so much for others, preferably millions of others, to get a good look at. I think those few seconds of madness, to use his word, were well worth a great deal of patient effort on my part. " --Gore Vidal
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Readers comment in the Write to the Editor section of NT News newspaper Darwin Money 18 July 2022 Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.” ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy
“We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!” ― Neal Cassady Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
''Discussions are always better than arguments, because an argument is to find out who is right, and a discussion is to find out what is right.'' - Unknown
“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.” ― Dave Barry
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” ― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
