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“life is one damned kitten after another”
― Don Marquis, The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

“Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”
― Ring Lardner

“Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.”
― Ring Lardner

“How can you write if you can't cry?”
― Ring Lardner

“Shut up,' he explained.”
― Ring Lardner

“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”
― Ring Lardner

“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.”
― Ring Lardner

“... people believe what they are told. I believe nothing, consider everything.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver

“Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical”
― Ki Longfellow, The Secret Magdalene

“His faith was no game he played.  It was not a mantle to put on or be taken off as the need arose.  The stories he took so literally he held dearer than his own life and he could not doubt them.  Doubt would have destroyed him.  I had no desire to destroy a foolish old man who suffered a fatal ignorance.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

“Intelligence requires first the gift of curiosity.  Without curiosity, who would ask questions?  Second, intelligence is the ability to synthesize.  Facts alone signify little.  Neither are they to be trusted.  Intelligence is the subtle arrangement of that which might or might not be true, the intuitive selection and the weaving of such selections into a pleasing whole that makes for meaning.  Third, intelligence has need of laughter.  Without laughter so much that is bitter and dark is allowed into being.  That which is bitter and dark may be clever, it may even be cunning, but it is never intelligent.  As for wisdom, wisdom is simple.  The wise are able to recognize, and to accept, that not only is one never intelligent enough, but that when all is said and done, one knows exactly nothing.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

“Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.”
― Ki Longfellow, The Secret Magdalene

“Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking—unless it is a true understanding. ”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

“A mind may know a thing, the spirit may embrace it, but the voice that chatters in the head clings ever to shameful beliefs. ”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

“What comes is called.”
― Ki Longfellow

“Life is still an unfolding,the farther we travel the more truth we can comprehend, and to understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
― Ki Longfellow

“... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver

“Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.”
― Ki Longfellow, The Secret Magdalene

“... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver

“How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.”
― Ki Longfellow

“What comes, is called.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver

“I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver

“Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All