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I sometimes wonder whether it is more of a disappointment to find that a blog has not been updated recently or that it has a really lame post.

Like this one.

At least I rarely meme….

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. ~ Virginia Woolf

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ Thomas Paine

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ~ Anton Chekhov

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. ~ W.C. Fields

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play. ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Above all, discard the irrelevant. ~ Barbara Tuchman

The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of. ~ Shirley Hazzard

Maybe the best we can do is do what we love as best we can. ~ Galway Kinnell

It is belief in love and hope for Mr. Right that keeps us shaving our legs. ~ aka_monty of The Daily Bitch

I have CDO. It’s like Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, but it’s alphabetical. Like it should be.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ~ Diane Arbus

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. ~ Henrik Ibsen

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~ Margaret Atwood

There’s nothing remarkable about [making music]. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. ~ Johann Sebastian Bach

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ~ Tennessee Williams

When someone recognizes you in a grocery store nod briefly and become a cabbage. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. ~ Howard Lindsay

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important. ~ Senator Eugene (Joseph) McCarthy

There’s nothing worse than an introspective drunk. ~ Tom Sharpe

All the world’s a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. ~ Sean O’Casey

The previous parts of this series are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (If you’re keeping track, there are 352 quotes in rotation now and I’ve posted 280 of them in these entries.)