Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
via The American Scholar (Summer, 2008)
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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
via The American Scholar (Summer, 2008)
— sdh
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Author: The Best American Poetry
it’s hard to be hip after seventy abandon hope all ye who enter keep your opinions from calcifying and your beliefs will astound you humor, not memory, is your ally love and laughter bring others along honor your white hair and wrinkles they’ll stay faithful until the end gather wildflowers be thankful and rejoice The…
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Four Czech New Wave films Invention for Destruction (1958) Karel Zeman (1910-1989). A master of stop-motion animation, he based the film on the Jules Verne patriotic novel Facing the Flag. Using miniature effects and matte paintings, his real-life actors had to act in an unusual stylized manner to match the animation. Loves of a Blonde (1965)…
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She takes my hand and I think how lovely she would be if I were not old and furry. She probably sees me as a wily old curmudgeon (who else but an old man would use words like these?) though I see her as delicate lace and watch her wisp away. Wisp away. The post…
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