What phrase from a book you’ve read that stays with you always.
Mine - from Pat Conroy’s tome, the Prince of Tides. From the prologue - “ My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”
As I sit here in SC looking out over a salt marsh with great snowy egrets gliding by, I can’t help but think of this favorite line of poetry of mine in that book as well as in fairly recent modern literature.
What about you?
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood”.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For it is always the stronger one who is to blame."...Dag Hammarskjold, 'Markings'
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"Men are incapable of love" - Shulamith Firestone
From "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution."
My fraternity roommate had that as assigned class reading and I remember that.
“Dear Forum, I never thought this would happen to me, but…”
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John 3:16
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“Sleep is a weapon.” The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
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Interesting...my wife and I are in the midst of rewatching the first three episodes...
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Why does that one stay with you always?
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Because Jason Bourne was bantered about during my WESTPAC deployments.
Aboard ship, backgammon and books were what we did on our downtime.
Ludlum’s books were passed around amongst my buddies. We all thought we were Jason Bourne as we moved about in Hong Kong or Singapore or wherever.
We played a game whereby one would disappear for a few minutes and then pop out from behind the corner of a building or alley, saying “Sleep is a weapon” …. to wit the rest of the crew would reply “Real funny Asshole” or “No. …. I knew where you were …” which of course never got old.
OK. Just sounded odd without any context.
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"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire
I fell in love with South Carolina working a huge case there for a few years. It was in a circuit court which meant exactly that... the court move around the state constantly.
I could and did walk the streets of Charleston for hours.... and eat a fabulous reasonably priced dinner every night.
Enjoy!
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Another from Voltaire.
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
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Lately: "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
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