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johntheott Aruba Fanatic
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"Don't look back! Whatever is chasin' you may be catchin' up!
--Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige _________________ John...
"A Free Spirit On An Endless Flight"
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
--- James Joyce
(Irish Novelist And Poet) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Many things bind Phoenicians together... Fearing insects, because even though we have fewer insects than other places, the insects we do have actively try to kill us. ~Dominic Verstegen _________________
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Many appear to best advantage in old age, when their character assumes a gentler tone, as becomes men who have seen the world and take life easily. ~Arthur Schopenhauer _________________
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Vice and virtue are to the artist materials of his art. ~Oscar Wilde
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Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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They may destroy your rose gardens, but no harm has been done, so that they have not destroyed your urge for roses. ~Muriel Strode _________________
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johntheott Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 429 Location: Winchester, MA
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."
--William Cullen Bryant, American poet (1794-1878). _________________ John...
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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In literature, when nine hundred and ninety-nine souls ignore you, but the thousandth buys your work, or at least borrows it — that is called enormous popularity. ~Arnold Bennett _________________
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Literature is the art of using words. This is not a platitude, but a truth of the first importance, a truth so profound that many writers never get down to it. ~Arnold Bennett _________________
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A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin _________________
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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The pen sometimes builds a more enduring monument than can the hammer or chisel. ~James Lendall Basford _________________
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Teri Moderator
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The author who has not made warm friends and then lost them in an hour by writing things that did not agree with the preconceived ideas of these friends, has either not written well or not been read. ~Elbert Hubbard _________________
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It's not a good idea to try to put your wife into a novel. Not your latest wife, anyway. ~Norman Mailer _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
--- Francis of Assisi
(Francis is honored tomorrow in many churches with the blessing of pets)
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 5:01 am Post subject: |
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Every man likes to be his own librarian... ~Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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