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There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured. And there is another personal satisfaction: that of the people who like to recount their adventures, the diary-keepers, the story-tellers, the letter-writers, a strange race of people who feel half cheated of an experience unless it is retold. It does not really exist until it is put into words. As though a little doubting or dull, they could not see it until it is repeated. For, paradoxically enough, the more unreal an experience becomes - translated from real action into unreal words, dead symbols for life itself - the more vivid it grows. Not only does it seem more vivid, but its essential core becomes clearer. One says excitedly to an audience, 'Do you see - I can't tell you how strange it was - we all of us felt...' although actually, at the time of incident, one was not conscious of such a feeling, and only became so in the retelling. It is as inexplicable as looking all afternoon at a gray stone of a beach, and not realizing, until one tries to put it on canvas, that is in reality bright blue.


Anne Morrow Lindbergh


#feeling #journals #meaning #stories #time

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.


Isadora Duncan


#american #ballet #ballet dancer #body #dancer

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.


George Grosz


#allowed #because #disappointed #few #go

Labelling is no longer a liberating political act but a necessity in order to gain entrance into the academic industrial complex and other discussions and spaces. For example, if so called “radical” or “progressive” people don’t hear enough “buzz” words (like feminist, anti-oppression, anti-racist, social justice, etc.) in your introduction, then you are deemed unworthy and not knowledgeable enough to speak with authority on issues that you have lived experience with. The criteria for identifying as a feminist by academic institutions, peer reviewed journals, national bodies, conferences, and other knowledge gatekeepers is very exclusive. It is based on academic theory instead of based on lived experiences or values. Name-dropping is so elitist! You're not a "real" feminist unless you can quote, or have read the following white women: (insert Women's Studies 101 readings).


Krysta Williams


#academic-industrial-complex #academy #feminism #feminist #feminist-theory

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.


Michael Clarke Duncan


#believing #give #go #goals #i

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!


Andrew Gross


#bottom #california #central #chance #charles

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.


Sofia Vergara


#bring #dentist #i #know #life

Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.


Bill Gross


#company #economy #future #go #higher

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.


Martin L. Gross


#eight #employees #every #executive #federal

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?


Tim Duncan


#different #enjoy #i #jokes #little






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