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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.”
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.”
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
Let my lusts be my ruin, then,
since all else is a fake
and a mockery.
- Hart Crane
since all else is a fake
and a mockery.
- Hart Crane
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Let my lusts be my ruin, then,
since all else is a fake
and a mockery.
- Hart Crane
since all else is a fake
and a mockery.
- Hart Crane
"There’s something vile in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes."
- Fernando Pessoa
- Fernando Pessoa
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"There’s something vile in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes."
- Fernando Pessoa
- Fernando Pessoa
“To the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.” - Patricia Highsmith
October 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“To the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.” - Patricia Highsmith
“It is good to be born in a depraved time; for, compared to others, you gain a reputation for virtue at a small cost.”
- Montaigne
- Montaigne
September 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“It is good to be born in a depraved time; for, compared to others, you gain a reputation for virtue at a small cost.”
- Montaigne
- Montaigne
I lie on my bunk in the moonlit night
on my stomach and contemplate
the bottomless horror of
the world...
-- Jack Kerouac
on my stomach and contemplate
the bottomless horror of
the world...
-- Jack Kerouac
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I lie on my bunk in the moonlit night
on my stomach and contemplate
the bottomless horror of
the world...
-- Jack Kerouac
on my stomach and contemplate
the bottomless horror of
the world...
-- Jack Kerouac
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
September 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
September 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley
August 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
- Goethe
- Goethe
August 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
- Goethe
- Goethe
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
August 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
I buried Morgan today next to the last dog I let so completely into my heart. I wrapped him in his Clemson blanket with a honeybun. I just got back to my house. My home is empty now.
August 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I buried Morgan today next to the last dog I let so completely into my heart. I wrapped him in his Clemson blanket with a honeybun. I just got back to my house. My home is empty now.
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
August 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
I heard the old, old, men say “all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.”
- W. B. Yeats
- W. B. Yeats
August 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I heard the old, old, men say “all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.”
- W. B. Yeats
- W. B. Yeats
You're one in a million. That means there are 340 of you in the United States. Find yourself. Start an army. Overthrow the government of a small southern town.
July 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
You're one in a million. That means there are 340 of you in the United States. Find yourself. Start an army. Overthrow the government of a small southern town.
“Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.”
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington
July 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.”
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
- Euripides
- Euripides
July 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
- Euripides
- Euripides
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“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Bukowski
July 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Bukowski
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
July 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”
– Bertolt Brecht
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”
– Bertolt Brecht
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”
– Bertolt Brecht
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”
– Bertolt Brecht