Disappointment
How sad it is when we discover that a writer, an artist, an actor, a musician, whom we have admired and enjoyed, believes in an imaginary friend.
Dread
Summer is coming like a giant steamroller, belching smoke and flame, sounding like a hurricane wind as it flattens all in its path
Valediction
I have never had, in a long life of creating ideas, and things, a serious review of any of it. No serious consideration of what was attempted, what were the problems, what was achieved. But then you don’t get that for your life itself I suppose,
City mouse, country mouse
It seems to me that living in a city must damage the human spirit from the outside, as much as cancer damages the human body from the inside
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I am ignorant and I vote
Sad that there are now so many people who take pride in their ignorance, where once it was a mark of a human being to take pride in knowledge, intelligence, and achievement.
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She shows them pearly white
The saying “as rare as hen’s teeth” only works if, now and then, a hen is born with teeth. But in this world, though not in the Age of Dinosaurs, the saying should be “as non-existent as hen’s teeth”.
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Stayin’ alive
Strange, I guess, how reluctant humans are to accept that the world managed quite well without them before they were born, and will manage just as well after they die. Strange too, I suppose, that in a world where all organisms die, after one day for a Mayfly, or five thousand years for a Bristlecone
No secret
The secret of success is rich ancestors, relatives in positions of power, and a friend who is a media baron