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Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Forever

Q: If you could live forever, would you, and why?

A: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.

Exchange between an interviewer and Miss Alabama, from the 1994 Miss USA Contest

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AnonymousSeptember 08, 2006 7:51 AM
Miss Alabama sounds like George Bush.
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AnonymousSeptember 09, 2006 11:37 AM
You've got to admit it makes a certain amount of tautologic sense.

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Words to live by

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]

Heraclitus

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Every day is a new deal.

Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”

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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]

Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again

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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.

Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living

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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.

J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction

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I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try

Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”

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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]

Simone Weil, in a letter

Orange Crate Art

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Forever

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