A Well Turned Phrase
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Bertrand Russell
“I lived by the motto: ‘C’s-get-degrees.’”
— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black
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— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black
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“Only man I know who can bench press four times his IQ.””
— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black
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— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black
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“he speaks an entirely different language. He installed Wi-Fi at my place and the way he talked about how it worked, he may as well have been reciting ancient spells or something.””
— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black
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— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black
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Folk and blues musician Anthony Moser skips the careful case against AI and opts for a plain human response: being a hater. "Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total
... See moreRoadtripping through the South is an experience that I associate with empty Arizona cans, endless stretches of interstate, Spotify, the occasional Hostess Zinger, and my compulsive noticing and reading-out-loud of every passing billboard. After a couple hundred such noticings of these advertising relics, the thematic frequent fliers become
... See more…the higher ed bubble, wherein students are commonly paying upwards of $90,000/year to learn how to do laundry and read Chaucer.
— Peter Thiel
Life
Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next
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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming “WOO HOO what a ride.”
-– Hunter S. Thompson