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Sunday, April 11, 2010

7:48

My day is wasted

"I Would rather be ashes than dust, I would rather that my psark should burn out in a brillant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificent glow, than a sleepy and function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London

"Happiness is only the sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad a lamentable experiment" - George Santyana

"For some time I have never said what I believed and never believed what I said, and if I do sometimes happen to say what I think, I always hide it among so many lies that it is hard to recover."-Machiavelli

"The Mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell; a Hell of Heaven."

I'm missing you Warnock

"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy." - Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

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