A PORTRAIT A DAY KEEPS MYSELF SANE

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I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

Cornell Woolrich

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It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Jean Lorrain

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Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.

Alexandre Dumas fils

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“Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.” ― Louis Untermeyer

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“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” ― Friedrich von Hayek

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“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.” ― Edmund Husserl

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“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.” ― John Milton, Areopagitica

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“Quicksands Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides Yet in the distance the sea has withdrawn Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides And you Like a seaweed the wind gently caresses In the sands of your bed you're moving dreaming Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides Yet in the distance the sea has withdrawn But in your half-opened eyes Two small waves staid Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides Two small waves to drown myself.” ― Jacques Prévert

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“The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.” ― Ken Saro-Wiwa

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“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.” ― Clifford Odets

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“The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.” ― Norman Corwin, The Rivalry

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Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken. Jean Craighead George

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The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

 Nikos Kazantakis

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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Jean-François Lyotard