19/10/2009
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“That’s the kind of way they have of dealing with children and they always have. We are squeamish. We are Disneyfied. We don’t want children to suffer. But what do we do about the fact that they do? The trick is to turn that into art.”
— Maurice Sendak (via cloud8) (via ambivalence)
This post was reblogged from /ambivalence.
4:24
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
Alfred E. Newman (aka MAD?)
16/10/2009
“Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end.”
— Kent Ruth
15/10/2009
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~Christopher Morley
17:27
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
12/10/2009
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
— Katherine Mansfield
11/10/2009
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain
11/9/2009
“What we are encountering is a panicky, an almost hysterical attempt to escape from the deadly anonymity of modern life… and the prime cause is not vanity… but the craving of people who feel their personality sinking lower and lower in the whirl of indistinguishable atoms to be lost in a mass civilisation.”
— Henry Candy (1926)
29/8/2009
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
(via superiphi)
14:54
“We have to have enough faith in our world-view to work from it, but not that much faith that we think it’s the final answer.”
— David Bohm
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