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Melanie

Melanie

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence." -Frederick Douglass

"But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all." - The Princess Bride, William Goldman more »
  • RI, USA
  • member since June 19 2009

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."~Fred Allen

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
    Abraham Lincoln

    Abe and kittens...had to post it.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "Wake up and smell the hummus." ~Genie, Aladin

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
    ~ Robert M. Hutchins

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."~John Steinbeck

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book."
    ~Robert Redford

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials." ~Robert McChesney

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "Always strive to excel, but only on weekends."~Richard Rorty

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    I swear this was not intentional...Samuel West just happens to be a highly praised member of The Royal Shakespeare Company, for his roles as Richard II, and of course...Hamlet.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone."~Samuel West

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    Just teasing...I know what you mean. :)

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    Do the Hallmark people know about you?

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    Bravo!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    Oh dear...I hate to ask what inspired that post!

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
    ~Franz Kafka

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "No matter what, at some point today, I am going to sit down with a cup of tea and read." ~MLR Thornton

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them, but you know they're always there." ~a fridge magnet

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure."
    Cass Gilbert

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    that's twice in less than 24 hours that we've posted/sent the exact same thing by the way!

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  • Reader 828

    Reader 828 says

    "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
    Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ~ Hamlet

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )