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Archives - October 2001

October 1, 2001

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

– Anne Frank, DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL

October 2, 2001

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

– Virginia Woolf, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN

October 3, 2001

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

– Ovid, METAMORPHOSES

October 4, 2001

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

– Jean Cocteau

October 5, 2001

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

– E.B. White, ONE MAN'S MEAT

October 6, 2001

Writing is a socially accepted form of schizophrenia.

– E.L. Doctorow, WRITERS AT WORK

October 7, 2001

Hitch your wagon to a star.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, CIVILIZATION

October 8, 2001

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

– Mark Twain, PUDD'NHEAD WILSON

October 9, 2001

The body says what words cannot.

– Martha Graham

October 10, 2001

I ask only to be free. The butterflies are free.

– Charles Dickens, BLEAK HOUSE

October 11, 2001

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion: a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

– Colette, BREAK OF DAY

October 12, 2001

When Liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood, it is hard to shake hands with her.

– Oscar Wilde

October 13, 2001

Love knows nothing of order.

– St. Jerome

October 14, 2001

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

– Jane Austen

October 15, 2001

An optimist is a guy that never has had much experience.

– Don Marquis, ARCHY AND MEHITABEL

October 16, 2001

Vanity is only being sensitive to what other people probably think of us.

– Paul Valery, MAUVAISES PENSEES

October 17, 2001

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

– Will Rogers, THE ILLITERATE DIGEST

October 18, 2001

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

– Golda Meir, L'EUROPEO

October 19, 2001

A bore is a person not interested in you.

– Mary Pettibone Poole, A GLASS EYE AT A KEYHOLE

October 20, 2001

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

October 21, 2001

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

– Fran Lebowitz, SOCIAL STUDIES

October 22, 2001

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

– Joyce Carol Oates, THE WHEEL OF LOVE

October 23, 2001

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

– Alice Roosevelt Longworth, MR. REPUBLICAN

October 24, 2001

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

– Lauren Bacall, LAUREN BACALL BY MYSELF

October 25, 2001

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too.

– Eugene O'Neill, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

October 26, 2001

Language asserts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

– Rita Mae Brown, STARTING FROM SCRATCH

October 27, 2001

Men have become the tools of their tools.

– Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN

October 28, 2001

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

– August Strindberg, GHOST SONATA

October 29, 2001

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

– Barbara Kingsolver, ANIMAL DREAMS

October 30, 2001

Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of them is work.

– Clarence Darrow

October 31, 2001

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep

– John Milton, PARADISE LOST