Tag: daily muse
member name: Karl Klein
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September 26, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
"There’s really good reasons to hate people. We don’t need silly reasons."
Nadine Delainey, Unnatural Girl on race relations
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October 01, 2008 06:53 AM EDT --
About 2500 years ago, a little story accredited Aesop goes like this:
According to an ancient legend, every man is born into the world with two bags suspended from his neck -- a small bag . . .
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October 09, 2008 10:47 PM EDT --
"Fine if you find catharsis in writing, but please don't drag me into your bathroom, point in the toilet and expect me to praise your crap."
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September 08, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child?...I do not know what it is any
more than he.
Walt Whitman
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September 08, 2008 06:59 PM EDT --
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake . . .
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September 08, 2008 07:34 PM EDT --
Logic and sermons never convince,
The damp of the night drives deeper my soul.
Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
Only what nobody denies is so.
Walt Whitman
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September 26, 2008 02:19 AM EDT --
Anytime I prance across the cow pasture trying not to step in anything, I always keep this in mind:
From my essay: What is offensive?
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August 14, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
From a religious leader -
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill . . .
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September 10, 2008 08:44 PM EDT --
Every death is tragic. That's what gives life value.
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September 26, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
"Like a harsh winter rain, he poured Oprah-ain bubble gum philosophy down on me."
Impermanence Kacie Kameron
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September 27, 2008 08:14 PM EDT --
"If objective reality is the measure, no one tells the truth."
Karl C Klein, essay on Randy's Diary .
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October 03, 2008 06:06 AM EDT --
Back in the 90's, a young actress caught my eye in a film called The Professional.
She was in Cold Mountain, too, appearing in the strange side-trip . . .
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December 28, 2008 04:47 AM EST --
Copyright©Karl C Klein
I believe magical beings appear to the enchanted traveler. I was twenty. She wasn’t human.
My first glimpse came around people jumping and bobbing, . . .
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August 14, 2008 04:21 PM EDT --
One of my favorites.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
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August 24, 2008 01:12 AM EDT --
Most people on Gather employ the site as a social network or use it as "The Refrigerator" to hang their work and get praise from Mom, no matter how bad it is. I'm sure . . .
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August 27, 2008 07:16 AM EDT --
Jenn, I read this years ago and it had a great impact on how I look at information.
Joseph Campbell writes
"...for a dogma, that is to say, an indisputable confession . . .
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September 07, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
"If you can't hear the music, you think the dancer mad."
Even when I saw "Blind Faith" at the Electric Factory in Philly back in the 60's, I stood quietly listening . . .
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September 15, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
Critics that open their review with "This is not my cup of tea" should never criticize the writer for using cliches.
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September 21, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
"A nyone who believes children can be protected withholding information, or somehow in a society like ours information isn’t disseminated anyway should upload his or her picture to Wikipedia . . .
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August 13, 2008 12:13 PM EDT --
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain
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