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"All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction."

--Steve Almond

September 11, 2020

"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."

--Barack Obama

"If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete."

--Buddha

"The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are stronger at the broken places."

-Ernest Hemingway (committed suicide in 1961.)

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."

--Ann Landers

"Parrot parents give their kids unique names and they call each other by them for life."

--Buzzfeed

     "I think the key to life is to be happy with what you've got."

     "That's very true..."

     "So make sure the stuff you've got is better than anyone else's."

     "...you may have missed the point."

    "Steal if you have to."

Cartoon wisdom from Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis

I try to stay away from politics but, no matter what your leanings, this should (possibly for different reasons) amuse you:

     A famous conservative and several of his associates were just arrested for fraud. One "owns a company [that makes] a nonalcoholic drink that claims it's made of liberal tears." (quoted from today's Gazette.)

     Really? Yuck! Who came up with THAT marketing campaign?