2024/03/19
Todays Thought
It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
-Philip Roth, novelist (19 Mar 1933-2018)
2024/03/18
Todays Thought
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
-John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009)
2024/03/17
Todays Thought
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
-Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)
2024/03/16
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (20 Jul 1919-2008)
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