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There have been many tributes to Tony Benn RIP but this one, from Gary Lineker, I thought was extremly apt ......
"RIP Tony Benn. That rare breed of politician, who never clambered aboard a bandwagon in his life"
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
- My Home by Clive James
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"People say love is the best feeling. But I think finding a toilet when you have diarrhea is better." Facebook silliness.
"I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I dont know what to feed it." Ramblings of a retired senile mind.
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I absolutely love GK Chesterton, here's one of my favorite quotes.
“The simplification of anything is always sensational." - GK Chesterton
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"Not all who wander are lost" - J.R.R.Tolkien
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“It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.”

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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"Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." -David Foster Wallace
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"Do or do not. There is no try."

-Yoda
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Scott wrote:"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche
I really love this quote!

-- 17 May 2014, 17:20 --

"We're all winners and losers in a fatal game of chance."
- Divergent, Veronica Roth

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."
- Looking For Alaska, John Green

"How will I ever get out of this Labyrinth?"
- Simon Bolivar

I have so many favourite quotes that I could write hundreds down, but I've got a book to read... So maybe some other time, ha ha.
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“‘The greatest accomplishment is not in
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fall.’ It’s Vince Lombardi.”
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"Whether you think you can, or think you can't--you're right." - Henry Ford
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(I love this so much I have part of it tattooed on my ribs, in his handwriting)

What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

-- 19 May 2014, 23:45 --
jesilangdale wrote:I absolutely love GK Chesterton, here's one of my favorite quotes.
“The simplification of anything is always sensational." - GK Chesterton

This is the same person who said "literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." Another good one!
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I love so many quotes. :) Here is one of my favorites.
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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I love quotes, and I have a huge collection of my favorites, but the two I keep on the wall of my office, I wrote for myself. They help me stay focused on what I need to remember.

Life is living, not existing. Seize life, and enjoy every minute.

We awaken the muse with the spirit of creativity. We entomb it with the ghoul of self-doubt.
"We awaken the muse with the spirit of creativity. We entomb it with the ghoul of self-doubt."

That's right, I have a muse. It is spelled MusE. My writing is influenced by the interactions of people I meet - us and ME.
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

I'm not into Hemmingway, but he had some spot- on things to say. :wink:
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who only dream at night.

-Edgar Allan Poe
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