TOM STOPPARD 1937— “Leopoldstadt” “Arcadia” “Tavesties”
IF YOU CARRY your childhood with you, you never become old.
A HEALTHY ATTITUDE is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
EVERY EXIT IS AN ENTRY SOMEWHERE ELSE.
WE GIVE ADVICE by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
I STILL BELIEVE that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
LIFE IS A GAMBLE, at terrible odds — if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.
I DON’T THINK WRITERS ARE SACRED, but words are. they deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.
DAVE BARRY. 1947– “Insane City” “Peter & the Starcatchers”
THOSE WHO CAN’T LAUGH AT THEMSELVES LEAVE THE JOB TO OTHERS.
EVERYONE has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.
YOUR HAND AND YOUR MOUTH AGREED many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS GOSSIP.
WHEN TROUBLE ARISES AND THINGS LOOK BAD, THERE IS ALWAYS one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often that individual is crazy.
A SENSE OF HUMOR is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.
FRANZ KAFKA 1883-1924 “The Metamorphisis” “Amerika”
He believed that the whole human race was the product of one of “God’s bad days.”
DON’T BEND; DON’T WATER IT DOWN; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
START WITH WHAT IS RIGHT RATHER THAN WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE.
IT’S ONLY because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
I NO LONGER KNOW if I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
WE LIVE IN AN AGE which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
EVERY THING THAT YOU LOVE, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
PLEASE — CONSIDER ME A DREAM.
ANYBODY who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
SIMPLY WAIT, BE QUIET, STILL. THE WORLD WILL FREELY OFFER ITSELF TO YOU.
ALL LANGUAGE IS BUT A POOR TRANSLATION.
I USUALLY SOLVE PROBLEMS B LETTING THEM DEVOUR ME.
YOU CAN choose to be free, but it’s the last decision you’ll ever make.
I HAVE SPENT MY LIFE RESISTING THE DESIRE TO END IT.
ANYTHING that has real & lasting value is always a gift from within.
ONLY THE MOMENT COUNTS. IT DETERMINES LIFE.
THE MEANING OF LIFE IS THAT IT STOPS.
HE IS TERRIBLY AFRAID OF DYING because he hasn’t yet lived.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS