"The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth."
- Dean Koontz
“Words are the only bullets in Truth’s bandolier. And Poets are the Snipers.”
– Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb
“And above it all the butterfly affect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings...”
- Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man
"Every expression of closeness has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth."
- Dean Koontz
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
- Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones
"After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)
"Well hey, these things just snap right off!"
- Gary Larson
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"There's nothing to writing, really...all you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."
- Sam Levenson
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
- Hosea Ballou
"Sweater: n;
A garment worn by a child when its mother is chilly."
- Ambrose Pierce
"Stupidity has a price, and it always get's paid."
- Dan Simmons, (The Fall of Hyperion)
And a biting sense of sarcasm, wit and sharpness to really make fools of those who do not know how to properly read such an exquisite piece!!
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Glad we don’t get trick or treaters here on the marina, nor carol singers at Yuletide.
We had the former at the house once though, and cute little kids (parents in background) in fancy dress knocked on the door. We were prepared. A group of three teenage lads tried their luck and got silly string instead as they’d made no effort at all. Ten minutes after being squirted, they were back, improvising on our front step as a headless torso (coat over head and shoulders) carrying head (pal under armpit lurking on the lower step in our bushes) and the third asking if we had any string left. We gave them a couple of bars of chocolate, and two weeks later they were back at our door singing carols! They got a flea in their ear for that trouble as it was way too early!
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We NEVER get carolers here where I live, lol.
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