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Quote of the Week – Brigitte Bardot

“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.” – Brigitte Bardot, b. 1934 – d. 2025 ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Henry Miller from Brooklyn

“Jack Kerouac has done something to our immaculate prose from which it may never recover.” – Henry Miller from Brooklyn, Dec. 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 30 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Joseph Campbell

“You must give up the life you planned, in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell, 1904–1987 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 23 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Hillel the Elder

“A single candle can light a thousand more without extinguishing itself.” – Hillel the Elder ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 16 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Aldous Huxley

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” – Aldous Huxley, B. 1894, UK – D. 1963, L.A. ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 09 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – William Burroughs

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shit’s quantity.” – William Burroughs, b. 1914 Missouri – d. 1997 Kansas ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 02 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Yoko Ono

“Common sense prevents you from thinking. Have less sense and you will make more sense.” – Yoko Ono ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 25 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Andrea Gibson

“Come love, make me better than I was. Come teach me a kinder way to say my own name.” – Andrea Gibson, Aug. 13, 1975 – July 14, 2025 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 18 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Hannah Arendt

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” – Elon Musk“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” – Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 11 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Henry Miller

“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” – Henry Miller from B... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 04 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens, November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Jack Kerouac

“People waste all their time. They’re alive for just so long, and they waste their time on recriminations and retributions and all such nonsense.” – Jack Kerouac, b. 1922 – d. 1969 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 21 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Diane Keaton

“The best relationships develop out of friendships.” – Diane Keaton, Jan. 5, 1946 – Oct. 11, 2025 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 14 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Jane Goodall

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall, B. 1934–D. 2025 ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Marshall McLuhan

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” – Marshall McLuhan, b. 1911–d. 1980 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the weekSept 30 2025

Quote of the Week – Robert Redford

“Not taking a risk is a risk. That’s how I see it.” – Robert Redford, 1936–2025 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the weekSept 23 2025

Quote of the Week – Arthur Schopenhauer

“There are two kinds of people in the world. Avoid both of them.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, b.1788 Poland – d.1860 Germany ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Georgia O’Keeffe

“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.” – Georgia O’Keeffe, b.1887 – d.1986 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the weekSept 09 2025

Quote of the Week – Ram Dass

“We’re all just walking each other home” – Ram Dass, b. Boston 1931 – d. Hawaii 2019 ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Anais Nin

“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depth and a great fear of shallow living.” – Anais Nin, b. Neuilly, France Feb. 1903 – d. Los Angeles Jan. 1977 ... Read More...

Aug 26 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the week

Quote of the Week – RUMI

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” – RUMI, b. Sept. 1207 – d. Dec. 1273 ... Read More...

Aug 19 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the week

Quote of the Week – Epictetus

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus, Died: 135 AD Greece ... Read More...

Aug 12 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the week

Quote of the Week – Rodney King

“Can we all just get along?” – Rodney King, 1965–2012 ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Albert Camus

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.” – Albert Camus, b. Algeria 1913–d. France 1960 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 29 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Yogi Berra

“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.” – Yogi Berra, 1925–2015 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 22 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Anne Lamott

“I’m here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.” – Anne Lamott ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 15 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Just because science and technology can do something, doesn’t mean it should.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce, 1926–2016 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 08 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Gore Vidal

“Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.” ― Gore Vidal, b. 1925 West Point, NY – d. 2012 Hollywood Hills, CA ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 01 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Jame Baldwin

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be there.” – Jame Baldwin, b. Harlem, NY 1942. – d. Fra... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 17 2025quote of the week

Quote of the Week – Hannah Arendt

“The ideal subject of totalitarianism is the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true or false, no longer exists.” – Hannah Arendt, b. 1906 - d.1975 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 10 2025quote of the week

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