I'm starting to think I should pay closer attention to the stuff my dad likes...because GK Chesterton is an amazing writer and I knew he liked him for a long time, but it wasn't until I came across a reference to him in Blue Like Jazz that I actually desired to read him. Could have cut to the chase a long time ago...
"Poetry sits at peace in an infinite sea, reason tries to cross the infinite sea and make it finite, the result is mental exhaustion. The poet sits with his head in the heavens and is at rest, the scientist tries to fit heaven into his head and it splits."
awesome...
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Philippians 2:12-13Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
"Photography is Truth."
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Why Blog?
Two reasons: As someone interested in writing, it's a good way to hone whatever ability I possess, and as someone with a lot of issues, it's cheaper than therapy.
Two reasons: As someone interested in writing, it's a good way to hone whatever ability I possess, and as someone with a lot of issues, it's cheaper than therapy.
Philippians 2:12-13
"Photography is Truth."
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Andrew's Familiar Quotations...
I have gathered a bouquet of other men’s flowers,
and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
~John Bartlett
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~Oscar Wilde
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~George Orwell
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~Bob Dylan
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.
Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~Ezra Pound
A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.
~Tony Blair
Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Shelley
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
~David Mamet
If you grew up with holes in ya zapatos,
You'd celebrate the minute you was havin' dough.
~Jay-Z
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
~Jean-Luc Godard
How fortunate for governments that the people they govern do not think.
~Adolph Hitler
I'll always love the game, but the game don't love nobody.
~Jim Brown
Today will never happen again.
~Lacey
and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
~John Bartlett
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~Oscar Wilde
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~George Orwell
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~Bob Dylan
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.
Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~Ezra Pound
A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.
~Tony Blair
Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Shelley
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
~David Mamet
If you grew up with holes in ya zapatos,
You'd celebrate the minute you was havin' dough.
~Jay-Z
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
~Jean-Luc Godard
How fortunate for governments that the people they govern do not think.
~Adolph Hitler
I'll always love the game, but the game don't love nobody.
~Jim Brown
Today will never happen again.
~Lacey
3 comments:
yes...awesome!
Hey dude sorry couldnt come see you this weekend, had to fit in the family
Chesterton is witty and wise. If you like to ponder human nature, I recommend The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker.
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