Paradise Lost

“They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

Absurdity

“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.” ― Ambrose Bierce

MARtin+ObamaNATION-days

[USA]=“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.” ― Christopher Hitchens

YO dumb-ass

“I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.” ― Britney Spears

 

YO dumb-ass: dont look at me in that tone of voice

“The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.” ― William Blake

inability

 

“The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.” ― Orrin Woodward, L.I.F.E. Living Intentionally For Excellence

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.” ― Albert Camus

Fools

“A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.
'Why?' someone asked him.----'To squeeze out the rain.” ― Idries Shah, Reflections

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.” ― Thomas Fuller

greatest prisoners

“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The Discourses

A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.” ― Vladimir Bartol, Alamut

panhandler

im back after the holidays

"A panhandler approached me today at the Bus-Station,~"hay can you give me some change"~ my response "hayas you still owe me 10-bucks from last month" shuts em down in there tracks.
“You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.” ― Jonathan Davis

-The moon moves 1.5 inches (3.81 centimeters) farther away from Earth every year.
“I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.” ― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

-Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. - Charles Kuralt

giving

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” ― George Eliot

purple of Emperors

"he wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” ― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

do they count?

"The horror! The horror!” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
[loons of the past -1978-JONEStown Massacre- body count 918, Children and infants = 287]
[do they count?] US jet drops bomb into Afgan Village-9 school kids dead: US soldier goes bezerk kills 16 adults, women and children, etc, etc,?

pointlessness of existence

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage>And then is heard no more: it is a tale>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,>>>Signifying nothing.”― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
we live in the age.....The term nihilism is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws.[2] Movements such as Futurism and deconstruction,[3] among others, have been identified by commentators as "nihilistic" at various times in various contexts.
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Storie

 

We're all islands............

“We're all islands shouting lies............. to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

poisons

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.” ― August Strindberg

Million monkeys

“We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” ― Robert Wilensky

Rubbish = mongers

All writing is rubbish.People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going on in their minds are producing rubbish. The whole literary tribe is a pack of rubbish mongers, especially today.All those who have landmarks in their minds, I mean in a certain part of their heads, in well-defined sites in their skulls, all those who are masters of language,

all those for whom words have meaning, all those for whom the soul has its heights and thought its currents, those who are the spirits of the times, and who have given names to these currents of thought—I am thinking of their specific tasks, and of that mechanical creaking their minds produce at every gust of wind—are rubbish mongers.”― Antonin Artaud

 

Kant = Cans

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”― Immanuel Kant

Spengler

“To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed”― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World History

Turgenev, Smoke

“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”― Ivan Turgenev, Smoke

SWEET------http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcrGEj5ZwM

Nikolai Gogol

“But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeable with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.”― Nikolai Gogol