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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Wade through weeks”
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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
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
*
Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
*
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
*
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
*
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
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
*
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
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
i'm in jeff's camp!! although i do have a few clicky pencils. and then you have to have the right eraser: pink pearls or the pentel hi-polymer eraser or the gum ones we used in graphic design class. and none of those you can add to a pencil when the eraser is gone as they just become hard plastic as some point.
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ps i think jeff goldblum would be my most favorite dinner guest. he really seems to be like his character that he played in the big chill.
That is fun, and I can relate, though I've never stolen any. I could talk your ear off about pencils.
ReplyDeleteI have talked at least few ears off in posts here, so I’ll just say that you are my kind of people.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Jeff knows about the eraser museum in Ohio. Slywy has visited, but I don’t think she’s written up her visit.
Sharpener Museum! Thousands of sharpeners. In a tiny building.
ReplyDeleteYes, sharpeners. Slywy wrote about the museum here, with many photographs:
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Get Jeff Goldblum on the phone!
An eraser museum might be equally cool . . . I have some from JetPens that when used up are supposed to have a toy inside, e.g., a rabbit, Mt. Fuji, etc. Problem is I never use them up . . .
ReplyDeleteI once had a student who had one of the pen-like erasers (like a long tube). She’d been using it since high school and still hadn’t worn it out.
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