Words To Live By

"Il n’y a qu’un bonheur dans la vie, c’est d’aimer et d’être aimé."

George Sand

Food For Thought

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Captain Hook:"To grow up is such a barbarous business, think of the inconvenience… & the pimples!"

J.M.Barrie- Peter Pan

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"What could possibly matter more in life than a cheap, momentary thrill?"

Ashleigh Brilliant

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"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein

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"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."

Robert Louis Stevenson

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“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
Alexander Woollcott

Steven Paul Jobs 1955-2011

"Remember that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

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"Stand before the people you fear & speak your mind even if your voice shakes."

Maggie Kuhn

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"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein

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"Everybody Is Happy Under A Big Top"

P.T. Barnum

A Very Lovely Special Christmas Day At Post Apocalyptic Bohemia

The Husband & I survived Christmas Day the only way we could & not fall to pieces. The Husband put the presents for Michael out of sight. I settled in to a day of heavy TV viewing that would be distracting & possibly make us laugh a bit. I made room on the DVR storage by watching a marathon of the Sundance Channel's Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, Beverly Hills Houswives, Chelsea Lately, & Top Chef Masters. I self-medicated. I called the parents & thanked them for all the warm & warm hearted holidays & the thoughtful, tender, tasteful gifts of books, albums, bicycles (5,8,11), trip to Europe (15), 1955 Jeep Willis Stationwagon (16), 1959 T-Bird, black on black (18), & the Etch-A-Sketch (54).

The Husband & I did our best to not slip deeper into deeper melancholia. I got a bit messed up. The Husband napped. Warm & wedded to each other; our 31st Christmas & worse for the wear.

Whenever life hands you a lemon, make it into lemon flavored vodka, I always say, huh?
You know, there’s a certain point in life where you either move forward & try to participate in a way that is interesting & hopefully useful, or else disappear. I chose the former, & that is just how I am. There are huge chasms along the way. I suffer from serious suffocating depression, but that doesn't accomplish anything. I try to change anything & have a bit of fun. How I react to setbacks is the fundamental choice I have to make each day. I wake up in the morning and say, “Oh well, a new day, let’s get it going, what’s ahead?” & just go do it one more time.

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"Sample everything that life has to offer,

 except incest & folk dancing"

George S. Kauffman

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"I'm tired of being dirty, easy & bad."

Ida Lupino in Roadhouse

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Buster Crabbe, Johnny Weissmuller, Herman Brix & Glenn Morris

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. & the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”

Henry Moore

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“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.”

Coco Chanel

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“Well, I could make an effort to be liked, but I’d rather be hated than inconvenienced.”

                                        Wilhelmina Slater

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"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased"
Katharine Hepburn

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"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (1862)

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"Let me listen to me & not to them."
Gertrude Stein