Your Quote of the Day

[redmond]

Originally Posted by Rick Sanchez

"You give me the awful impression, I hate to have say it, of someone who hasn't read any of the arguments against your position ever." - Christopher Hitchens to Sean Hannity

CH's was a singular mind. His criticism of Kissinger chimed with Tom Lehrer's view that satire died when K got the Nobel Peace Prize.

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"They say love is more important than money, but have you ever tried to pay your bills with a hug?"

- Anonymous

[redmond]

"You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick, and say to yourself, when the works are laid out before you, the vowels, the consonants, the rhymes and the rhythms, 'Yes, this is it. This is why the poem moves me so. It is because of the craftsmanship.' But you're back again where you began. You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem, so that something which is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in."

from Notes on the Art of Poetry written in the summer of 1951, at Laugharne (South Wales), in reply to questions posed by a student

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"An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough."

- Anonymous

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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay. Oscar Wilde

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"The first five days after the weekend are always the hardest."

- Anonymous

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“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” — Arthur Conan Doyle

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"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives."

- Anonymous

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"Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die."

- Albert King

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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstein