Things that Bansai left for us

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"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."
— Lisa Alther

Barnabas
April 18, 2011, 6:35 pm
Aunt Clara (Bewitched) must have been a genius, then.
bansaisequoia
August 14, 2011, 8:09 pm
As well as Mr Kimball of Green Acres.

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"You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars, you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should."
— Max Ehrmann

JCarlosCuevas
May 14, 2010, 4:20 am
Part of a prose poem entitled "Desiderata".
bansaisequoia
May 21, 2010, 8:53 pm
"...no less than the trees and the stars..." "Moon" is incorrect. I keep seeing "trees," whether it is attributed to Max Ehrmann, or to the 1970s Les Crane song lyrics.
fishbum
March 17, 2011, 12:21 am
It is my understanding that "Desiderata" is unattributed. Found in an old church in Boston.
bansaisequoia
July 22, 2011, 4:44 pm
Au contraire. It was erroneously thought to have originated in a Baltimore, Maryland church in 1692. It was actually written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann. (link)

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"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
— Jean Kerr

bansaisequoia
July 6, 2009, 10:42 pm
What about Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski?

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"I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube."
— Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

bansaisequoia
May 5, 2010, 12:08 am
He wrote the text that was used in Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony #13, "Babi Yar."

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"It is a man's world, and you men can have it. "
— Katherine Anne Porter

bansaisequoia
June 22, 2009, 9:24 pm
Of course, her only novel is entitled, "Ship of Fools"!

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"One must care about a world one will not see. "
— Bertrand Russell

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2009, 8:13 pm
Fight global warming for your grandchildren.

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"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. "
— Henry Miller

maradnu
March 2, 2009, 1:03 am
What about a person with a bellyful of Miller?
bansaisequoia
September 19, 2009, 10:58 pm
What about a person with a bellyful of Heineken?

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"I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!"
— Jerry Seinfeld

bansaisequoia
April 21, 2010, 10:01 pm
"Uh huh. In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people."--Lisa Simpson

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"Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye."
— Jean Kerr

bansaisequoia
July 5, 2009, 7:12 pm
Jean Kerr is the author of, "Please Don't Eat The Daisies." Who remembers that one?

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"How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician."
— Henry Miller

bansaisequoia
June 12, 2009, 3:40 pm
I'm not sure how novel this would be since Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford & George H W Bush are all veterans. Assuming Miller means war veterans. And though Jimmy Carter did not go to war, he was a Navy veteran.

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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. "
— William Blake

bansaisequoia
September 18, 2009, 12:03 am
This could be the secret to leading the league in stolen bases. I'll speak my mind, and the baseman will avoid me.

[Toeprint]

"Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside."
— Jim Malusa

bansaisequoia
September 12, 2014, 9:10 am
Different from the back of a limo with a jacuzzi and an assortment of single malt scotches in the wet bar. Totally different head. Totally.

[Toeprint]

"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination, and taxes."
— H. E. Martz

notwavingbut
June 16, 2009, 8:54 pm
hard but good
Lurker
July 12, 2009, 8:27 pm
Next time, one that uses ALL the letters?
banzaisequoia
January 30, 2010, 3:11 am
Lurker wants a pangram.

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"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. "
— Margaret Oliphant

bansaisequoia
August 25, 2009, 11:46 pm
I still say it's entrapment!

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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. "
— Thomas Carlyle

bansaisequoia
April 23, 2010, 8:12 pm
Tell me about it, bro.