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I am not the handiest person, but do like to putter around, and recently, while thinking about slate roofs, I got an idea for a chessboard made with slate squares. I couldn’t find any stone squares of the right size on the Web, but while wandering around Lowe’s, I stumbled into the tile department and [...]

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“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
– Variously said to be an old Chinese proverb, a saying inside a fortune cookie, found in a box of ginger snaps, or done in needlepoint on a pillow.

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“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, quoted in The New York Times in 1985

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On Waiting

“I can be reduced to tears by bureaucracy. Time-wasting is my greatest phobia and being in a queue to speak to someone about a mobile phone or something is my idea of hell. There is too much else I could be doing. Very often in those situations I will burst into tears. What makes it [...]

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The room is gray.
The day is gray.
She sits that way.
The Bible, you say?
– Written during an upstate New York winter, in the old Hall of Languages at Syracuse University, during Bob Hastings’ English class and a lecture on the Old Testament, as my mind wandered to a classmate.

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Not Uncommon

“There was no loneliness in the woods. I sensed a certain kinship, even with the mosquitoes and ticks; to travel so far and persistently at only the hope of a warm attachment is an act not uncommon to my tribe.”
– John Lane in “Natural Edges,” collected in In Short (1996), edited by Judith Kitchen and [...]

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Done

“No one has the courage to call me at home. It’s never been a rule, but that’s the attitude I give off. When I’m done, I’m done.”
– Renzo Rosso, CEO of the $1.6 billion Diesel jeans empire

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“You’ve bullied the weak, you’ve robbed the poor;
The starving brother you’ve turned from the door
You’ve laid up gold where the canker rust,
And have given free vent to your beastly lust.”
“You’ve justice scorned, and corruption sown,
And trampled the laws of nature down.
You have drunk, rioted, cheated, plundered, and lied
And mocked at God in your hell-born [...]

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“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.”
– Jaws by Peter Benchley
Favored by David Wise

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Bed Rest

“No one in the whole of Sussex is so miserable as I am; or so conscious of an infinite capacity of enjoyment hoarded in me, could I use it. The sun streams (no, never streams; floods rather) down upon all the yellow fields and the long low barns; and what wouldn’t I give to be [...]

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