Quotes for the Days Ahead

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"In the midst of winter, I found, within me, an invincible summer." –Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa" (1954)

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have stopped taking it seriously." Hunter S. Thompson

"Life is mysterious and beautiful and it sucks." - me

 

Awww Judit I want to laugh and cry at the same time

judit, your post made me think of an old Woody Allen bit:

“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other one says, 'Yeah, I know; and such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.” –Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

After two years in prison, on January 17, 2023, Alexei Navalny wrote:

“I’m not going to surrender my country to them, and I believe that the darkness will eventually yield. But as long as it persists, I will do all I can, try to do what is right, and urge everyone not to abandon hope.

Russia will be happy!”

 

“We must do what they fear - tell the truth, spread the truth.

This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.”

                                -Alexei Navalny from prison on June 19, 2023

"Shut the fuck up Donny."

Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum - by Megan Bowler

 

"invincible summer"

^also the wonderful title one of my man's fave records, by kd lang

If you don't know whether to shit or go blind

try shitting first

I can't believe I am the first to remind you to "Buckle Up Kids"

 

We're not here to fuck spiders

FAFO-?

"We're here to help each other through this thing, whatever it is." –Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark.

when all else fails

read the instructions...

"Pobodys Nerfect"

"I don't get laid, nobody gets laid."

Bill Hicks doing an impression of Ted Turner

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7le907eZ20g
 

Hicks might not have been too far off.  The 4B movement in South Korea is trending with groups of American women:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5182888/4b-movement-trump-south-korea

 

​​​We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"I'm a work in progress. Please wait." (from the internet)

A Nazi in every dumpster.

Look for the helpers

"We're Fucked!!!" - 100 million Americans.

This is the phrase I wanted to post at 6:20 but I didn't remember all of it and messed it up.

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“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” ― Henry Miller

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

 - George Carlin 

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.

- George Carlin

"Hey wait! They can't do that!"

Here's another cool million for you to "invest" for me Mr. Madoff.

Do I contradict myself? 

Very well then I contradict myself. 

I am large, I contain multitudes. 
 

-Walt Whitman

Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say say, "I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother".  He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old.

- St. George 

Roberto:
It is a sad and beautiful world.

Zack:
Yeah, it's a sad and beautiful world buddy.

 

Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Only a handful understood Albert Einstein. And nobody understood Emperor Norton.

Principia Discordia

Reality is the original Rorschach.

Malaclypse the Younger

"A Few Words I Wrote Today" by Patti Smith
November 6. 2024

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Audio: https://pattismith.substack.com/p/a-few-words

You're not Dylan Thomas

I'm not Patti Smith

This ain't the Chelsea hotel

We're modern idiots

"We have met the enemy, and he is us" ~ Pogo~ Walt Kelly.

This was paraphrased from the original quote of Commander Oliver Perry, who said "We have met the enemy and they are ours", after capturing a British fleet in1813.  

Walt made it more meaningful.

In stormy times, wise people remain calm, even when the world around them is in turmoil. Turbulence may destroy structures that lack a firm foundation,  but this is necessary to build stronger ones.

-  Stephen Hill

History's page will thus be carved in stone

The future's here, we are here

We are on our own.........

Hunter seems timely.

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