Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

-Frederick Douglass

What the Shakespeare?

Said by Charles Dickens. I thought this line quite clever.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

- Stephen King

I've begun to wonder that too. So I may just try it out/already have. I also keep reading Stephen King quotes and liking them, but I don't really know who he is. I am now off to amend this.

I think smart in my head, I just can't get the words out.

-Tara, 'Beauty and the Geek.'

'When a father can provide a deserving son with something but denies him, there has to be something very important, something over and above that, and that thing is us. The death of Christ teaches us the love of God.'

'We sing and we sing because we've got so much to sing about, friend'

'The more you count your blessings, life gets into perspective. We've always got something to thank God about. If nothing else, thank him for sending his son.'

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Spent a week away, studying God. It was excellent, and above are just a few quotes from Phillip Jensen's talks on the cross of Christ.

Once I began a book, I couldn't put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. But I had almost no desire to talk with anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. - Haruki Murakami

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible ad wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

'She can't have been a spy. Look what she did to her hydrangeas!'

- A woman in the Sydney Morning Herald, neighbour to the woman in question. I don't know what she did to her hydrangeas, but it's obviously solid proof. Obviously.

True

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
- Will Rogers

Captain Carrot: “In a few months they say we’ll be able to send messages all the way from Ankh-Morpork to Genua in less than a day!”

Sam Vimes: “Yes indeed. I wonder if by then we’ll have anything sensible to say to each other.” – Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

It's little comments like this that make me really appreciate Pratchett's books.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

- Robert Graves

A Caution to Everybody

Consider the auk;

Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.

Consider man, who may well become extinct

Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

- Ogden Nash

'The main battles in life are to believe in the person and work of Christ on the cross. I mean really believe it - trust it, embrace it, cherish it, treasure it, bank on it, breathe it, shape your life by it.'

John Piper

The best portion of a man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love -William Wordsworth

I've not the faintest idea where I first found this quote, but it inspired a story that got me through almost every HSC Adv. English exam, so thank you William Wordsworth.

Back

Yes I haven't posted in a while, so here is a post for January before it's too late.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

-Hector Berlioz

I love this quote, because of how true it is.

I loathe the expression "what makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometime stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

-James Thurber

I don't wholly agree with this quote, I just like the way it acknowledges the complexities involved in being a person.

Just a Thought

For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

- 1 Corinthians 10:33

Wouldn't it be fantastic for this to be 100% true about every aspect of our lives?

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg