Parissoul Beyond Quotes & Sayings

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. Keep active, keep busy! — Dale Carnegie

Even apocalypse looks less dire when viewed over a plate of bacon. — Stephanie Stamm

It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions. — Alistair Cooke

Louis glanced at her face. He could tell she was mentally packing her trunk. — Nancy Horan

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard. — Mason Cooley

The history of a people are found in its songs. — George Jellinek

the problem that I've found with
most poets that I have known is that
they've never had an 8 hour job
and there is nothing
that will put a person
more in touch
with the realities
than
an 8 hour job.

they have been protected
against the actualities
from the
beginning
and they
understand nothing
but the ends of their
fingernails
and
their delicate
hairlines
and
their lymph
nodes.
their words are
unlived, unfurnished, un-
true, and worse - so
fashionably
dull.

poet (?): that word
needs re-defining. — Charles Bukowski

He asked what I made of the other students, so I told him. They were OK, but they were all very similar; they struggled to have different opinions because they'd never failed at anything or been nobodies, and they thought they would always win. But this isn't most people's experience of life. He asked me what could be done about it. I told him the answer was to send them all out for a year to do some dead-end job like working in a chicken-processing plant or spreading muck with a tractor. It would do more good than a gap year in Peru. He laughed and thought this tremendously witty. It wasn't meant to be funny. — James Rebanks

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job. — Leo Kottke