"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)
Damn good, straight as said
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SWMBO told me you had posted again so Hi.
You know girl I also wake up in the morning into a world of hard pain, usually after a night of demons, so I also know tired, beyond dog tired. My mind too fucked to think straight or even make coffee.
Only here is the kicker to my tale.
Not long ago I was asked how the hell I kept going.
I answered by quoting you.
“It’s better to die on your feet than on your knees.”
In case I haven’t said it before, “Thanks for that girl”.
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Bear Hugs Paul, thank you right back my friend.
And to be truthful, we both have Dan Simmons to thank for that gem of a sentiment. ( I think it was from the Hyperion Cantos…it’s a damn good line.
Much love to you and yours 💕
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Keep smiling Girl, and KEEP WRITING! 🙂
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Been thinking of you lately. Good to see a post. ❤
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