I'm getting ready to put Quote, Unquote* in a box where it will sit for a few weeks until it reappears, I hope, in the new parsonage in Plato Center. I thought I would offer some gems (not always safe for work!) without comment.
We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered. - F. Fraser Darling
Without the friendship of the Happy Dead, how should we bear our life? - wall plaque, Stillingfleet Church, North Yorkshire
It's nothing that a guy should take all of his emotions, his prayers and meditations into a night club, and torture the people with their torments by playing everything they feel. It would be better sometimes to play some things they imagine to be true, outside their own personal lives. - Charles Mingus
I'd cross an Alp to see a village idiot of quality. - Norman Douglas
When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. - Brazilian proverb
Few people have the imagination for reality - Goethe
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. - Willem deKoonig
What dull barbarians are not proud of their dullness and barbarism? - William Makepeace Thackeray
There are no wrong notes. - Thelonius Sphere Monk
Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. - Philip Larkin
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. - Harry S. Truman
*Seventy bucks for a book I was given? If it wasn't so important to me, I'd be willing to sell it for that price!
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