"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)
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Good one. Glad your mum is okay.
A place called ‘ovens’ here in Cork was looking for a licence for a crematorium.
My friend took two years to decide what might be a fabulous gravestone for young Daniel. We waited with baited and breath and laughed out loud when they went with plain and simple. Grief isn’t always misery.
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Not always. Good to see you. Xx
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the fifth point made me laugh – should I be looking for that here? I never knew.
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Its true, its true.
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read it again and LOLled again. It really is a classic.
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❤ Glad you’re mom is still with you.
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Oh, me too! So very much! Thank you for your support. 💙
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You always have it.
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Wow. I’m humbled. What a nice thing to say.
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Glad to see a post from you as I’ve noticed your absence. Thinking of you.
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Ive noticed my absence also…Ive already been promoted to a busier and more demanding position at work…mama is still trudging along somehow…
Thinking of you guys, too. Much love 💕
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🙂 Take care. 🙂
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