December 2011
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How to achieve 100% of your 2012 resolutions!
These last days of the year are a good time to recall how much of it you’ve wasted, while neglecting those things you were absolutely determined to do when it began. In a few days we will begin the physical (gorged on sweets), financial (maxed plastic) and spiritual (why am I wasting my so brief time on earth?) healing from the holiday season. Why not give yourself a break this year and resolve to...
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It’s a hard life, if you don’t weaken.
My grandmother used to say, “It’s a hard life, if you don’t weaken.” She grew up, barely, in Whitechapel, London, where they were so poor dinner was usually a bowl of boiled potatoes on the floor with all the kids sitting around it. They had rickets and other problems from malnutrition. She could talk in the Cockney slang where a word replaces some other word it rhymes with. She swore a lot in...
…my mind today is a herd of cats trying to herd a herd of cats…
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“People who always speak their minds have their fans, but they are few.”
– Michael Lipsey
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I love Christmas trees, they remind me that before we got involved in this monotheism fanaticism we knew that spirits and gods reside in trees and beasts, in mountains, volcanos and the fertility of the earth.
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People are always asking me how one becomes an epigrammatist. The hardest part is learning to introduce yourself as an epigrammatist without stumbling over the word.
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“A job is a collar that chafes.”
– Michael Lipsey
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these will always be with you in your dreams....
Friends you’ve lost touch with, houses where you once lived, school assignments you never finished, first death, jobs you got fired from, last fight, first times, old loves, first birth, old cars, old travels…all these will always be with you in your dreams….
Alcohol is a preservative, but not for brains.
“Hi, I’m Mike and I’m an epigrammatist.”
“Hi Mike.”
“It’s been twelve hours since I wrote my last epigram.”
(clap, clap, clap)
“That’s all for now.”
“Thanks Mike.”
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“You get fat in those few moments between when you know you should stop, and when...”
– Michael Lipsey
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…even my own life is an unexplored continent…
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“We all go through life taking notes. Some write them down. Those are called...”
– Michael Lipsey
“Eventually you have to take the stone out of your shoe.”
– Old saying
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“There’s so much I’d like to remember — that I keep forgetting.
There’s so...”
– Michael Lipsey
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A year on tumblr
I just wanted to say that my year on tumblr has been immensely rewarding. I’ve collected quotes all my life, and I write epigrams, but every day I’ve found new great new quotes that I hadn’t seen elsewhere. And my art education has been way broadened, especially since I go to museum shows, but rarely to gallery shows. By watching the response to my own work I’ve gotten an...
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka. (via misswallflower)
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“One way to live is to not think very much. This has its good and bad sides. The...”
– Michael Lipsey
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“I hate quotations,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Tell me what you...”
– Seneca & Emerson
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