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“Everyone sees what you appear to be,
few experience what you really are.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli
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Jim Larimer
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Somewhere out there, are the polling station staff who refused to let Boris ride roughshod over the rules he insisted that other people obey.
Hope somebody drops a crate of something refreshing to the polling station for them at the end of their shift. Heroes.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't
waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

— Paul Auster

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'At the end of my suffering
there was a door.'

A benediction of a poem themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/lou…

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oh to be a yellow lab napping on a windowsill overlooking a canal in Bruges

Ah , Paul Auster x

' When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.' (The Brooklyn Follies)

“I really wanted to get together with all the punk females for an afternoon of celebrations. It’s a great memory.' Debbie Harry.
Photographer Chris Stein.

Ada Limón:

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”

~ Charles Bukowski

At the Supreme Court, lawyers debate how many organs a woman has to lose before she can be allowed an abortion to save her life. At the New York court of appeals, lawyers declare that if a man raped too many women some of them have to shut up about it, out of fairness to him.

My Patti Smith albums have sat on a shelf for years - and now my 14 year old daughter is asking to listen to them. For that alone, I love Taylor Swift 😊 Anything that brings Patti to the next generation can only be a good thing! 👌

Thinking about this Ethan Hawke interview

'I have immortal longings in me.'

William Shakespeare

📷Lauren Withrow

“Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer,
maybe self-destruction is the answer. “

--Chuck Palahniuk

'We are homesick most for the places we have never known.'

Carson McCullers

📷'Mekong River Fishing, Laos. 2018.'
Michael Kenna

Happy birthday Robert Smith

Prince William sold one copy of The Big Issue,told us his life goal was peace in the Middle East,and spent a few minutes at a foodbank yesterday. He got two million quid in holiday pay,too, apparently. Meanwhile, some Junior Doctors working beyond limit get paid 14 quid an hour!