I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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Happy 100th Birthday, Richard Nixon!
”The twin pillars of my father’s legacy are peace and the victory of free-market capitalism. I think my father’s guiding principles were peace and justice… because without justice, peace is only ephemeral. Everything he did in the international area was to bring about a lasting peace.”
– Patricia Nixon Cox (Orange County Register 5/1, President Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California, on January 9, 1913).
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”Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
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”Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.”
– Gore Vidal
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”Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
– Ray Bradbury
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”Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
– Graham Greene
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”Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
– F Scott Fitzgerald
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”There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Gott nytt år!
“So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”
– F Scott Fitzgerald
På partimarknaden
”Jag betraktar alla politiska partier med samma välbalanserade blandning av misstro och avmätt tolerans.”
– Johan Hakelius, krönikör i Aftonbladet (AB 24/12).
Christian Dahlgrens Blogg 