"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)
I’ve done #5 LOL , and to avoid #10 we’re doing the natural solution … no embalming, biodegradable casket, clothing etc. Well thats my plan … have told the fams if they do something different I’ll haunt the shit outta them! LOL
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Exactly. Where I work, only the Jews do it right.
No embalming with the double tall bottomless creche that the basic wooden coffin is lowered into. Great thinking ahead, girl. 😊
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I didn’t know that … geniuses … btw I’m part Jewish (seriously) LOL. And yes, thats me, always planning ahead 😉
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Are you really? That explains your depth and at least part of your strength!
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Really?? I don’t know alot about the Jewish people, other than the Holocaust and my activism research. It’s an area I haven’t explored for me personally yet. But yeah, my maternal Nan was part Jewish and English. And my maternal Grandfather was Indigenous/French-Canadian.
They’re a ‘deep’ people then?? Strong – for sure!
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The deepest of deep. If you think about it, they have been the world’s kicking post for all time…but this fact hasn’t evolved them into a hateful or cruel people, quite the opposite, somehow. The Jewish people (as both a culture and as a religious sect) have earned my unwavering respect and admiration.
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Wow … and Yes, I suppose so … and you have sparked my intrigue. I’ll do some more research. My Nan was an extremely deep person … she was also very insightful / respectful with the dead and dying. We always wondered how and why … this is quite possibly the answer.
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Hi ya. I didn’t know most of that.
You’ve been I my thoughts ☺
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Hugs, Si. Xx
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Hugs back at you. I guess its been hard xx
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