#276 05-20-2011 04:12:37
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Friday 05/20/11
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
~ Joseph Joubert ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#277 05-21-2011 13:20:57
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Saturday 05/21/11
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
~ Clive Bell ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#278 05-22-2011 02:20:26
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Re: WISDOM IN WORDS
Sunday 05/22/11
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#279 05-23-2011 01:12:37
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Monday 05/23/11
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~ Joseph Joubert ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#280 05-24-2011 10:51:45
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Tuesday 05/24/11
When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.
~ Jim Fiebig ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#281 05-25-2011 01:15:01
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Wednesday 05/25/11
Never cut what you can untie.
~ Joseph Joubert ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#282 05-26-2011 11:31:14
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Thursday 05/26/11
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
~ Tennessee Williams ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#283 05-27-2011 01:55:42
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Friday 05/27/11
¿Shave, shape, sharpen: Memories, the small end of nothing sharpened to a point? Else, what’s the present for?
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#284 05-28-2011 03:27:05
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Saturday 05/28/11
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
~ Tennessee Williams ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#285 05-29-2011 02:00:59
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Re: WISDOM IN WORDS
Sunday 05/29/11
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~ Tennessee Williams ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#286 05-29-2011 11:29:31
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
~ Joseph Conrad ~
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#287 05-29-2011 11:46:29
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s_thatcher wrote:
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
~ Joseph Conrad ~
He says it better than I:
A careful reader finds more truth in good fiction in one night than he is able to find in a true story in a lifetime. A careful storyteller will find the truth in a lifetime for a careful reader.
¿Shave, shape, sharpen: Memories, the small end of nothing sharpened to a point? Else, what’s the present for?
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#288 05-30-2011 05:07:53
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Re: WISDOM IN WORDS
Monday 05/30/11
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
~ Tennessee Williams ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#289 05-31-2011 08:46:58
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Tuesday 05/31/11
All good art is an indiscretion.
~ Tennessee Williams ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#290 06-01-2011 01:02:07
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Wednesday 06/01/11
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#291 06-02-2011 04:11:08
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Thursday 06/02/11
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#292 06-03-2011 02:50:38
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Friday 06/03/11
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
~ Tennessee Williams ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#293 06-04-2011 01:23:02
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Saturday 06/04/11
Some folk want their luck buttered.
~ Thomas Hardy ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#294 06-05-2011 01:27:52
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Sunday 06/05/11
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
~ Thomas Hardy ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#295 06-06-2011 01:22:38
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Re: WISDOM IN WORDS
Monday 06/06/11
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#296 06-07-2011 09:43:22
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Tuesday 06/07/11
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#297 06-08-2011 01:09:32
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Re: WISDOM IN WORDS
Wednesday 06/08/11
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#298 06-09-2011 05:13:01
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Thursday 06/09/11
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#299 06-10-2011 04:23:55
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Friday 06/10/11
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~
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~ Writing fiction, just like poetry, is still an enchanting dance of words on paper. Make it a fun dance, one folks want to get jiggy with all night long, and they'll come back for more, every time. ~ Q.X.T. Rhazmeulen
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#300 08-27-2011 11:11:54
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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