"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken." ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
The ones who love us best Are the ones we lay to rest. We visit their graves at holidays at best. The ones who love us least Are the ones we die to please If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand The Replacements Bastards Of Young
And he definitely laid a few eggs in his time. I became acquainted with Mencken's work when I lived in Baltimore, where he is regarded as a sort of patron saint. A strange combination of progressive and conservative, who has his champions and detractors to this day.
"What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of great thought!... Prose wanders around with a lantern and laboriously schedules and verifies the details and particulars of a valley and its frame of crags and peaks, then Poetry comes, and lays bare the landscape with a single splendid flash." --Mark Twain
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.” ― Carl Sagan
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” ― Bradley Miller
A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. - Edward Abbey
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
"Think of your mind like a pond full of fish, and each fish is a feeling. Try to be the pond, not the fish." ~ said by a teacher to a classroom of eight-year-olds
He was so ahead of his time.... Truly a KEY figure in our history, with his intelligence and LIGHTNING wit.
“Punks jump up to get beat down” -my dad, 2023 becomes more and more true the more i think about it, lol
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." James A. Baldwin
Angela had more bodies than a Chinese cemetery. Nobody ever seemed to wonder why anytime she went anywhere, somebody got whacked. I wouldn't invite her anywhere.
