QUOTATIONS
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain. Read more
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“You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.” — Susan Sontag Read more
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You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. – Kurt Vonnegut. Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November 22, 2010 (so almost 16 years ago). Donald Hall is, unfortunately, an under-appreciated poet. While his prose works like LifeWork and Ancient Glittering Eyes represent his greatest strengths as a writer, he remains a marvelous poet. “Names of Horses” is… Read more
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Album Midnight Blue Artist Kenny Burrell Year 1963 Personnel Kenny Burrell (guitar), Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax), Major Holley (bass), Bill English (drums), Ray Barretto (congas) Era / Style Soul Jazz / Blues Jazz / Guitar Jazz Favorite Tracks “Chitlins Con Carne,” “Midnight Blue,” “Soul Lament” First Listen Reaction LIVE RECORDINGImmediately welcoming; bluesy, relaxed, and deeply… Read more
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” — Leo Tolstoy Read more
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I am on Substack enough to know that there is a serious movement to discourage and ban any AI from creative work. But I need to confess this: I do use AI (in my case, Gemini) to proofread what I post here. The prompt I use is this: “Please edit the following for typos:” and… Read more
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“In my time, Ernest Hemingway wrote a certain kind of story better and more effectively than it had ever been done before. He was properly accepted and acclaimed. He was imitated almost slavishly by every young writer, including me, not only in America but in the world. He wrote a special kind of story out… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on March 11, 2020 In one of my favorite chess quotes, writer Edward Lasker (not to be confused with chess great Emanuel Lasker) once said, “It has been said that man is distinguished from animal in that he… Read more
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