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There is something so nice about coming home to a place that smells faintly of fresh bread. Mmm. I won a fantastic round of mah-johngg this evening in Metro. I just want to play so much mah-johngg. I bought sour gummi worms and new incense, walked around the grocery store for a little while. Now I have to sleep.

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Today I will be quiet. I will stay home and do things I put off. Like read my government and make soap, practice my stitching, rest. That sort of thing. If I didn't miss my real hair color so much, I might be tempted to follow Warhol's example and change colors again. I must wait til I get to Prague, so Oleg the Russian mafia stylist can cut my hair.

Pale grey sky outside.

words on ideas

"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin, US clergyman, author

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
-- Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, director

"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
-- Maria Callas, US opera singer

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, scholar, orator

"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities."
-- Charles DeGaulle, French president, politician, military leader

"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."
-- Walter Lippmann, US journalist, editor, author

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I like to remember these things. This seems like a good place to keep them.
"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it."
-- Ron Wood

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."
-- Thomas Carlyle, British historian and essayist

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
-- Marcus Aelius Aurelius, Roman Emperor

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."
-- Marlon Brando

"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."
-- Vera Brittain, English writer, feminist, and pacifist

"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life."
-- Stephen Gaskin, American writer