Category Archives: quotes

A Life Worth Living

July 28, 2017 – 2:15 pm

“If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.” Friedrich Engels

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Quote of the Day / Billy Wilder

February 25, 2017 – 11:30 am

“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” Billy Wilder Oscar Winning Director and Writer Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and my favorite The Apartment

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Marcus Garvey on History

February 11, 2017 – 7:10 pm

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” Marcus Garvey

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Atheism – Kingsley Amis

February 2, 2017 – 5:19 pm

“Yevgeny Yevtushenko: ‘You atheist?’ “Kingsley Amis: ‘Well, yes, but it’s more that I hate him.” ― Kingsley Amis Foto for gratuitous titillation by Ali Formenti

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Aurora Borealis / Jack London

June 13, 2016 – 12:57 am

“With the Aurora Borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading […]

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