Category Archives: Chatter
“I don’t understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like someone who’s lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation… I want to live. I’m beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.” – W. Somerset Maugham (The Painted Veil)
“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer — and what trees and seasons smelled like — how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden
RIP Richie Havens!
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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.” – Truman Capote (The Muses Are Heard: An Account)
Happy Valentine’s Day, pussycats!
“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” ~ Oren Arnold
A true legend… will always dig you, RIP Dave Brubeck.
“Got no checkbooks, got no banks / Still I’d like to express my thanks / I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night…” – Irving Berling
In honor of those who have served or are presently serving our country, thank you:
“For those that will fight for it….Freedom…has a flavor the protected shall never know.” – L/Cpl Edwin L. Craft, B Co. 3rd AT’s, Khe Sahn Combat Base, February 1968
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” – Walt Disney
“If I were the sun way up there / I’d go with love almost anywhere / I’ll be the moon when the sun goes down / Just to let you know I’m still around…” – Taj Mahal (That’s How Strong My Love Is)
Thanks pussycats! Freakoutville appreciates your support!!! Thought you should know…
