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Writing Day
Dec. 26th, 2017 09:04 amHaving finally gotten into my Eliot book, I now feel free to have a writing day and return to my routine, or close to it anyway. I think I will make my writing day more of a Journal Work Day. When it comes to journaling about the little affairs of my home life, I want to stick to writing about them when the events are fresh and still tingling on my nerves, rather than jotting a quick note of a few words and waiting to portray them until my next writing day.
This means that I will be mostly working on my old journal entries, but I am adding something to that. I want to go back to building up my collection of favorite quotations in what I used to call my little golden books. I have gone back to reading them more frequently, instead of just on grocery trips and lawn mowings. Although I have not regained my initial enthusiasm, when reading them seemed about as essential to my life as drinking water, I am dipping into them more regularly, largely because I find the poetry books to be a bit too 'hit and miss' for my needs.
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Of supporting the Soviet Union and accepting their show trials and political executions.
Sartre: "To merit the right to influence men who are struggling, one must first participate in their struggle, and this means accepting many things if you hope to change a few of them."
Camus: "In Vienna, the doves perch on gallows."
[Ronald Aronson: "Camus & Sartre"]
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Mike Huckabee: "Churchill was hated by his own party, opposition party, and press. Feared by King as reckless, and despised for his bluntness. But unlike Neville Chamberlain, he didn't retreat. We had a Chamberlain for 8 yrs; in Donald Trump we have a Churchill.
David Frum: "To make the analogy perfect, though, you'd have to imagine that Churchill was Hitler's preferred candidate for prime minister in 1940."
[Twitter]
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“Ideals are for greeting cards.”
-- Harold Brodkey
This means that I will be mostly working on my old journal entries, but I am adding something to that. I want to go back to building up my collection of favorite quotations in what I used to call my little golden books. I have gone back to reading them more frequently, instead of just on grocery trips and lawn mowings. Although I have not regained my initial enthusiasm, when reading them seemed about as essential to my life as drinking water, I am dipping into them more regularly, largely because I find the poetry books to be a bit too 'hit and miss' for my needs.
* * *
Of supporting the Soviet Union and accepting their show trials and political executions.
Sartre: "To merit the right to influence men who are struggling, one must first participate in their struggle, and this means accepting many things if you hope to change a few of them."
Camus: "In Vienna, the doves perch on gallows."
[Ronald Aronson: "Camus & Sartre"]
* * *
Mike Huckabee: "Churchill was hated by his own party, opposition party, and press. Feared by King as reckless, and despised for his bluntness. But unlike Neville Chamberlain, he didn't retreat. We had a Chamberlain for 8 yrs; in Donald Trump we have a Churchill.
David Frum: "To make the analogy perfect, though, you'd have to imagine that Churchill was Hitler's preferred candidate for prime minister in 1940."
[Twitter]
* * *
“Ideals are for greeting cards.”
-- Harold Brodkey
