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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
— Salvador Dali
ould that I knew the context of this line, found in many quotation lists. In isolation it’s a good thought, enough so that I’m willing to risk ripping it out of context thus:
I happen to be (gasp!) over fifty. That in itself is no [...]

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Vintage literature

lacemats at local diners contain all kinds of strange and wonderful tidbits. Consider the following quotation found beneath the plates at The Nook in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, in an ad for the nearby Market Street Wineshop:
Wine is, above all, pleasure. Those who would make it ponderous make it dull. … If you keep an open [...]

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Where there is no meaning, there is no being.
— Vera Nazarian
[Note: The above was initially used as the epigraph for the Scriptorium.]
o what about that quotation up there? Well, it makes sense — even if you violently object to it — if we consider it in light of who and what we consider ourselves to [...]

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