X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=e03259db4636f1817d883bd2754cb4458e985f95;hb=b998e65f1d042ec21649d334079a9dc15156ebe9;hp=02c747d3a437f1b081db206f2e0103de1975887c;hpb=c14dbc4434aa3df066be8c6e0326236e6bff6384;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 02c747d..e03259d 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -928,3 +928,60 @@ Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall Find thy body by the wall! -- Matthew Arnold +% +unbeingdead isn't beingalive + -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_ +% +nothing except the impossible shall occur + -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_ +% +-tommorow is our permanent address +and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, +we'll move away still further:into now + -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_ +% +in Just- +spring when the world is mud- +luscious the little lame baloonman + +whistles far and wee + -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]" +% +life's not a paragraph +And death i think is no parenthesis + -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_ +% +Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. +We get very little wisdom from success, you know. + -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_ +% +Given that the odds of a miracle are one in one million, and events +which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a +miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not +all that miraculous. +% +They say when you embark on a journey +of revenge +dig two graves. +They underestimate me. + -- a softer world #560 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560 +% +I never meant to let you down. +I thought for sure +the attic lock would hold. + -- a softer world #562 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562 +% +I made a bunch of stickers +to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels. +"If you are reading this, + then you are awesome" + -- a softer world #569 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569 +% +I'm sorry about those late night emails. +I only said those things because I was too drunk +to be afraid. + -- a softer world #579 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579