Three quotes

1.It's nervous work.The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.-Shirley Hazzard
2.Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.-Tom Robins
3.It has long been my belief that in times of great stress,such as a 4-day vacation,the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once,and we are revealed in our true personalities.-Shirley Jackson(1919-65)

More interesting proverbs and quotes

1.Explore the daily will of God.-Carl Jung
2.After victory,tighten your helmet chord.-Japanese proverb
3.Better to bend with the wind,than to break.-Chinese proverb
4.Looking repeatedly into the past,you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life,but with the phenomenon of memory.-Patricia Hampl
5.Fellatio is not an opera.-Seen on a T-shirt.
6.The future is here,now,and the past is full ofd actyual deeds,real history.Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.-Patricia Hampl
7.When there is no enemy within,the enemies outside cannot hurt you.-African proverb
8.The tide must reach its lowest before it turns.-Old proverb
9.When the fox preaches,look to the geese.-German proverb
10.Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.-Lauren Bacall
11.Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.-Marsha Norman
12.Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.-Rabbi Harold Kushner
13.When spider webs unite,they can tie up a lion.-Ethiopian proverb
14.Knowledge cuts up the world.Wisdom makes it whole.-Brazilian proverb
15.To investigate as extensively as unraveling silk.-Chinese proverb
16.When one shuts one eye,one does not hear everything.-Swiss proverb
17.It's nervous work.The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.-Shirley Jackson
18.Cocoa?Cocoa?Damn miserable puny stuff,fit for kittens and unwashed boys.Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?-Shireley Jackson
19.You gotta have a dream.If you don't have a dream,how ya gonna make a dream come true?-Bloody Mary,in the movie SOUTH PACIFIC.
20.To be unhappy over what one lacks is to waste what one already possesses.-Chinese proverb
21.How uncanny to go back in memory to a house from which time has stolen all the furniture,and to find the one remembered chair,and write it so large,so deep,that it furnishes the entire vacant room.-Patricia Hampl

James Hadley Chase books

I live in Montreal.And I wonder why in Montreal bookstores,novels written by the British thriller writer James Hadley Chase,are rarely available.
He is very poular in Britain,New Zealand and Australia.Why do Montreal bookstores not stock his novels?

Some thoughts for the day

1.To fly we have to have resistance.-Maya Lin
2.A gentleman chooses his friends carefully.-Chinese proverb
3.I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.-Rod Stewart
4.When the hand ceases to scatter,the heart ceases to pray.-Irish proverb
5.Our greatest glory is not in never fallingbut rising every time we fall.-Chinese proverb
6.Ingenuity lights the path to success.-Chinese proverb
7.Kindness is wisdom.-Philip J.Bailey
8.To move freely you must be deeply rooted.-Bella Lewitsky
9.Great things are not done by impulse,but by a series of small things brought together.-Vincent Van Gogh
10.Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.-Jean Paul Richter
11.Stir the fire,you may burn yourself.-Chinese proverb
12.I have often rewritten-often several times-every word I have ever published.My pencils outlast their erasers.-Vladimir Nabokov
13.Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.-Seen on a T-shirt.
14.''Frankly Scallop,I don't give a clam''(T-shirt slogan seen on Cape Cod)

My Favorite movie

The 1943 thriller movie`DOUBLE INDEMNITY' is probaly my favorite movie of all time.It is beautifully directed by Billy
Wilder,and the acting performances of Barbara Stanwyck
and Fred MacMurray are brilliant.This movie about an insurance scheme murder plot is worth watching,by people of all age groups.I have seen the movie twice on TV,and I would gladly see it a third time.
Woody Allen has said`Double Indemnity' is his favorite movie of all time.

The website of a great cab driver and writer

Jernigan Pontiac is a Vermont cabbie and newspaper columnist.He is an entertaining writer,with a vivacious personality.His website is
www.yohackie.com. He has published a great book of his newspaper columns called Hackie:Cab Driver and Life Hackie 2:Perfect Autumn.
It provides a leisurely read.Definitely a gem .

A must-read book

A book by Thea Halo concerning the Armenian holocaust 'Not Even My Name'must be heavily promoted.It is very poignant,informative and extremely well-written.It deserves wide acclaim.

Fresh Quotes to ponder

1.Intolerance is evidence of impotence.-Aleister Crowley
2.There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.-Lester J.POurciau.
3.God made everything out of nothing,but the nothingness shows through.-Paul VAlery
4.We are what we pretend to be,so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
5.When we are planning for posterity,we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
6.Freedom lives in self-responsibility and is inspired by self-determination.-Karl Hess
7.Love has always been the motivating force in my life.-Kathleen Fraser
8.You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet.-Chinese proverb
9.When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.-German proverb
10.The thing that eats the heart is mostly heart.-Stanley Kunitz
11.When a thing is done,advice comes too late.-Romanian proverb
12.Develop interest in life,as you see it;in people,things,literature,music---the world is so rich,simply throbbing with rich treasures,beautiful souls and interesting people.Forget yourself.-Henry Miller

Thoughts to ponder

1.Pure gold does not fear furnace.-Chinese proverb
2.Patience can conquer destiny.-Irish proverb
3.Loneliness is never more cruel than it is felt in close proximity with someone who has ceased to communicate.-Germaine Greer,but it might have been a goldfish-Quoted by Michael Kesterton in Social Studies,The GLOBE AND MAIL,JUNE 2,2006.
4.God made idiots.That was for practice.Then he made school boards.-Mark Twain

Quotes to ponder

1.One may go a long way after one is tired.-French proverb
2.The fate of American culture will depend on whether we can recover from our addiction to the car.-Ernest Callenbach,writer,environmentalist and author of the 1975 book 'ECOTOPIA.'
3.Security and peace do not lead to discoveries.-Carl Jung
4.First secure an independent income,then practice virtue.-Chinese proverb
5.We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.-Winston Churchill
6.Pure gold does not fear furnace.-French proverb
7.What is bought is cheaper than a gift.-Portuguese proverb
8Education:the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.-Mark Twain
9.What we love to do,we find time to do.-John Spalding.
10.You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.-Warren Beatty.
11.Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.-French proverb
12.The fool mistakes power for virtue,acclaim for merit,nonconformity for dangerousness,conviction for truth,revenge for justice,licence for liberty,and kindness for weakness.-Anonymous

A few great witticisms or proverbs to chew on

1.Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.-Shalom Rokeach
2.I find that ducks' opinion of me is greatly influenced by whether or not I have bread.-Mitch Hedburg
3.Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks,document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs.It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.-Fran Lebowitz.
4.What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.-French proverb
5.When eating bamboo sprouts,remember the man who planted them.-Chinese proverb

Great quotes and epigrams

1.Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger,but a heart as soft as tofu.-Chinese proverb
2.Ring the bells that can still ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen
3.He who walks in tune with the rhythm of life,is never weary.-Mahatma Gandhi
4.A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.-Mahatma Gandhi
5.A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.-Michel de Montaigne
6.Sometimes I wish that I was the weather.You'd bring me up in conversation forever.And when it rained,I'd be the talk of the day.-John Mayer

A few more epigrams and proverbs I want to add

1.A company is known by the men it keeps.-Chinese proverb
2.Use soft words and hard arguments.-English proverb
3.The only paradise is paradise lost.-Marcel Proust(Albert Camus)
4.Better to die fighting for freedom than to be a prisoner all the days of your life.-Bob Marley.
5.Unwilling service earns no thanks.-Danish proverb
6.Patience is sometimes considered a virtue when it is actually a case of not knowing what to do.-Sally Poplin.
7.Once you get married,you understand how wars start.-Fay Weldon
8.The love we give away is the only love we keep.-Elbert Hubbard
9.Cherish your visions and your dreams,as they are the children of your soul;the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.-Napoleon Hill

A few more epigrams and proverbs I want to add

1.A company is known by the men it keeps.-Chinese proverb
2.Use soft words and hard arguments.-English proverb
3.The only paradise is paradise lost.-Marcel Proust(Albert Camus)
4.Better to die fighting for freedom than to be a prisoner all the days of your life.-Bob Marley.
5.Unwilling service earns no thanks.-Danish proverb
6.Patience is sometimes considered a virtue when it is actually a case of not knowing what to do.-Sally Poplin.
7.Once you get married,you understand how wars start.-Fay Weldon
8.The love we give away is the only love we keep.-Elbert Hubbard
9.Cherish your visions and your dreams,as they are the children of your soul;the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.-Napoleon Hill

A few more epigrams and proverbs I want to add

1.A company is known by the men it keeps.-Chinese proverb
2.Use soft words and hard arguments.-English proverb
3.The only paradise is paradise lost.-Marcel Proust(Albert Camus)
4.Better to die fighting for freedom than to be a prisoner all the days of your life.-Bob Marley.
5.Unwilling service earns no thanks.-Danish proverb
6.Patience is sometimes considered a virtue when it is actually a case of not knowing what to do.-Sally Poplin.
7.Once you get married,you understand how wars start.-Fay Weldon
8.The love we give away is the only love we keep.-Elbert Hubbard
9.Cherish your visions and your dreams,as they are the children of your soul;the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.-Napoleon Hill