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Posted on September 4, 2022September 4, 2022

“If music doesn’t come from windows, you know that something’s definitely wrong.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band (Eugene Hütz)

Posted on August 18, 2022August 18, 2022

“Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.”—Ogden Nash, American poet, 1902-1971

Posted on April 30, 2022

“You who seek an end of love—love will yield to busyness: be busy, and you will be safe.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on April 20, 2022April 19, 2022

“There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh!”—Catullus, Latin poet, c.84-c.54 BC

Posted on April 11, 2022

“My friends are my estate.”—Emily Dickinson, American poet, 1830-1886

Posted on March 4, 2022

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that g_____mn mountain.”—Jack Kerouac, American novelist & poet, 1922-1969

Posted on January 31, 2022

“These success encourages: they can because they think they can.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 70-19 BC

Posted on January 5, 2022

“I may be sick and I may seem dumb. That don’t mean you know where I’m coming from.”—Lyric from “Qualified”, by Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr.), American songwriter, 1941-2019

Posted on December 15, 2021

“To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”—Walter Pater, English essayist, 1839-1894

Posted on November 21, 2021November 22, 2021

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, 1804-1864

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