Sunday, September 27, 2015

The Frictionary # 601

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5536. Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. (Stanley Marcus)

5537. The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. (G.K. Chesterton)

5538. The moment we laugh at things, they are not dangerous anymore.* (Raymond Devos)
* This does not apply to ISIS...

5539. Only illusion is easy. Truth is always difficult. (Rabindranath Tagore)

5540. Life is without meaning. You bring meaning to it (...). Being alive is the meaning. (Joseph Campbell)

5541. Clocks keep time.
It's OK
I don't want it. (Réjean Lévesque)

5542. If we're not supposed to have midnight snacks, then why do refrigerators have a light? (Michael Linhart)

5543. All the past is necessary in order to love the present. (Annie Ernaux)

5544. Someday is not a day of the week. (Janet Dailey)

5545. We are a landscape of all we have seen. (Isamu Naguchi)

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

The Frictionary # 600

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5526. A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. (Thomas Carlyle)

5527. It is necessary, therefore, it is possible. (Giuseppe Antonio Borgese)

5528. Girls just want to have funds. (Adrienne Gusoff)

5529. Poetry, the language no one speaks and that everyone understands. (Alfred de Musset)

5530. A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. (Grace Hansen)

5531. I will take these two lines of tears
and send them to you
far away
at the Western reach of the sea. (Meng Hua-Ran)

5532. I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? (Tom Clancy)

5533. Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Pablo Picasso)

5534. - What's your sign?
          - Stop. (Nick Thune)

5535. Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us. (Rabindranath Tagore)

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

The Frictionary # 599

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5516. Language is the archives of history. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

5517. The past is just the future dragging its feet. (Coyote Sings)

5518. The memory is the perfume of the soul. (George Sand)

5519. You can think clearly only with your clothes on. (Margaret Atwood)

5520. I like the word "indolence", it makes my laziness seem classy. (Bern Williams)

5521. When one door closes another one opens. I should really get this cabinet fixed. (Anastasia Kazakevich)

5522. We don't talk about trees getting older...we say they are "growing". Let's use the same language for ourselves. We're not getting older, we're growing. (Sue Fitzmaurice)

5523. When we see all those anorexic top models and how much they make, we get to think of the dollar per pound ratio. (Philippe Geluck)

5524. The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted. (?)

5525. After a while
lust dims
so love can get
the chance to bloom. (Réjean Lévesque)

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Sunday, September 06, 2015

The Frictionary # 598

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5506. Save Our Planet Recycle Knowledge. (Gwendolyn Moore)

5507. Truth is more in the process than in the result. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

5508. Desire tears at the gift wrap. (madeleinebleue)

5509. The major attractions you find in the West - the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford - were caused by erosion. (Dave Barry)

5510. Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor. (E.M. Cioran)

5511. I am a collection of dismantled almosts. (Anne Sexton)

5512. The bigger the crucifix is on your chain, the less religious you are. (Daniel Tirado)

5513. A pensive moon reflects
on her long distance love
with the sun. (Réjean Lévesque)

5514. -"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
          -"Depends what side of the supermarket you're on."(Mason Mastroiani "B.C.")

5515. To want is to have a weakness. (Margaret Atwood)

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