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Sunday, 20 July
Two thoughts from Bertolt Brecht
“He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.”
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Monday, 21 July
Two thoughts from John Fante
“The intelligent man makes certain reservations as to the choice of his listeners.”
“They were myths I once believed, and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.”
Tuesday, 22 July
Two thoughts from Nelson Algren
"The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D."
“Any writer who knows what he’s doing isn’t doing very much.”
Wednesday, 23 July
Two thoughts from Robert Stone
"The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful."
"The greatest stories are the ones that challenge, provoke, and ultimately change us."
Thursday, 24 July
Two thoughts from Peter Matthiessen
“In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.”
“Course truth don’t count for much after all these years cause folks hangs on to what it suits ’em to believe and won’t let go of it.”
Friday, 25 July
Two thoughts from Susan Sontag
"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas...[and] The only interesting ideas are heresies."
Saturday, 26 July
Two thoughts from Case Kenny
"One thing about happy people? They offer kindness without any agenda and let the universe handle the rest."
“Life is much more fun when you stop waiting for the stars to align and start dancing under the ones already shining.”
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