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2022-1022

Do doh da dada tay

2022-1020

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

2022-1016

Can I finish what I wanna say? I don’t wanna interupt your interruption, dude. Are those ears strickly ornamental or do ever use them?

Woody Harrelson

2022-1004

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

2022-0909

If this isn’t nice, then what is?

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

2021-0716

I’m guaranteed to rock I make the ladies scream and shout I’m bound to wreck your body and say “turn the party out”

2021-0621

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

2021-0613

Paradise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.

2021-0214

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

2020-0531

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

2020-0323

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

2020-0317

It’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.

2014-0531

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning‐bug and the lightning.

2014-0530

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

2014-0504

In his highest flights, musical and architectural above all, for they are one, man gives the illusion of rivaling the order, the majesty and the splendor of the heavens.

2014-0412

How to write a good short story:

2013-0320

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

2013-0219

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

2013-0116

It was as undesigned as possible.

2012-1211

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

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