I have a small bound book that I carry around so I can scribble dialogue and plot points, things that interest me and stuff that might be useful later. I often forget why I bothered, but it’s always a trip going through it.
And I needed a blog post.*
So here’s a sample, in the exact order they were written. I only edited one entry—a brownie point awaits the first person who figures out which one it is.
Oh, have I mentioned that I’m a quote-hoarder?
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
—Mark Twain
To err is human; to forgive infrequent.
—Franklin P. Adams
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“My team was killed because I thought I was invincible. I’m sure you’ve heard the story.”
“Several versions. Yours is the only one that blames you.”
“Yeah, well, I’m the only one left who was there.”
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Fernando Botero
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
–Henry David Thoreau
Traver—collector of bridge tolls
Silver doesn’t tarnish on the moon.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
—Lily Tomlin
Shanking: “stabbers never show; and showers never stab”—watch the hands
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“You may be the big sociopath in this little pond of yours, but I’m the monster of the deep.”
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People enjoy just the right amount of strangeness, and authenticity is often too strange.
—Jo Walton
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
—Saul Bellow
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Her abrupt answer stung, though he knew better—or hoped he did—than to take it personally. But it meant he didn’t have a lot of time to talk her around. And if she refused to help—truly refused—he was going to have to respect her decision.
But not yet.
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PA does not require firearms to be registered. LTCF’s can be issued to res and non-res. Good for 5 years. For res—applications are handled by their county sheriff’s office, with the exception of Philadelphia (the Gun Permits & Tracking Unit of the PPD). Permits by one county must be honored by all counties, Philadelphia, too.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
—Jorge Luis Borges
Just because we’re in charge doesn’t mean everything is okay; we are not very nice.
—Benjamin Rosenbaum
If you’re violating your standards faster than you can lower them, time to go away.
—Robin Williams
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night.
—Edgar Allen Poe
St. Drago—patron saint of unattractive people
If you could see infrared light, you could use your TV remote as a flashlight
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
—Oscar Wilde
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
—Hugh MacLeod
Alcohol detection Bracelets. Personal Technology. Starter interrupt for cars—anti-On Star??—missed payments, drinking, etc. Electrocution?
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.
—P.J. Plauger
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
—Jack London
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
—Will Rogers
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X is a mole!!! S/he’s been feeding info to the bad guys the whole time! That’s how they knew! And Y suspects! This fixes EVERYTHING !!!
K. can’t break into the Courthouse for the marriage record. -Recorder’s Office has them on microfilm. Have C. distract the guard–that’ll tick her off, too J. has marriage covered, don’t dup. K & C go after Pinstripes? K. goes, C. tags along to irritate him.
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Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
—Barbara Hall
Aurivorious—craving gold
The louder he talked of honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.
—Willie Taylor
Ring the bells that still ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
—Jules de Gaultier
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“Would you want someone digging up your past, even to save your life?”
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Taphophiles—cemetery lovers
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
—John Tudor
Cerumen = earwax
Dentures were made of the teeth of dead soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars—these were cherished by their owners. Oh, yurgh.
Freedom deserves a better epitaph than fear.
—Leonard Pitts
We live in a Newtonian world of Einstein physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
—David Russell
To repeat what others have said required education; to challenge it, requires brains.**
—Mary Pettibone Poole
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
—Philip K. Dick
Callipygian—having a shapely bottom
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.—Mark Twain
Call it a clan, call it a Network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
—Jane Howard
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And for a rousing finish, here’s a poll for no reason whatsoever, except I finally figured out how to set one up:
Anyone want to share their favorite quotes or scribbles? It’s kind of cathartic . . .
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*Which is rapidly becoming my favorite excuse next to, “I didn’t hear the dryer ding.”
**Oops.
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