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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadn...

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of m...

When I visit any major city I love to take snapshots of what I call vertical symmetry in architecture. I spent the past week in Toronto a...

Always remember that you are absolutely unique.  Just like everyone else. -- Margaret Mead -- Have a great Friday! *****

I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. -- Leo ...

I. Am. Enjoying. My. Vacation. Sincerely, Cip

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman ...

Well -- I've accomplished quite a bit here on my second day of vacation. It's been a long time in the making -- a lot of red tape...

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity  by reading all the novels you can. -- Richard Hughes -- Have a great ...

It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. -- Lemony Snicket, Th...

I've just begun reading a fascinating book called Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other . The au...

It's no mystery to any of my Blogfriends that I have not been writing much lately, nor blogging.  Other than a poem composed under t...

Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are. -- Jonathan Safran Foer,...

If watching television doesn’t hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes...

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. -- Henry Mitchell -- Have a great Wednesday! *****

  Have a great Tuesday! *****

 If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think...

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. -- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye -- Ha...

He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wan...

When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: ‘We’re afraid they’ll kill us.’ When men were asked t...