this night
this night
does not end
memories that linger
what went wrong
what went right
replay again
and again
this night
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“If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?”
a Dorothy Parker quote from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
Flower not Flower by Bai Ju Yi (772 – 846)
translated from the Chinese by Mary Tang on her blog Life is But This
“Nothing is hopeless that is right.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“Nothing is hopeless that is right.”
— Susan B. Anthony, activist, civil rights advocate, speaker
Coming Upon Mount Wu Yi by Li Shang Yin (c.813-858)
translated from the Chinese by Mary Tang on her blog Life is But This
“Art… is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced… it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Art for art’s sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced.
It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.”
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”
Edwin Percy Whipple, essayist, critic
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize lecture, 1980
Book quote from Trumpocracy by author David Frum
“Activism is my rent for living on this planet.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“Activism is my rent for living on this planet.”
– Alice Walker, poet, writer
Love in This Age by Choi Seung-ja
translated from the Korean by Geul on the blog Cardiac Slaves of the Stars
(translated from the Korean by geul)
Leonard Durso 