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2020/04/26 #SundaySentence

Posted on April 26, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

If Liz Warren were president this would be a plandemic. from the Twitter feed of The Volatile Mermaid Sunday Sentence is inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.

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2020/04/19 #SundaySentence

Posted on April 19, 2020December 21, 2020 by cultured

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. Susan Sontag (read the article by Kurt Vonnegut here Sunday Sentence is inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.

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2020/03/15 #SundaySentence

Posted on March 15, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou, photo by J.L. Munn Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.

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2020/03/08 #SundaySentence

Posted on March 8, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

Our efforts to fight poverty are often based on the misconception that poor people must pull themselves up out of the mire. But the relentless struggle to make ends meet has serious effects on the brain. Poverty is not a lack of character – it’s a lack of cash. From Poverty isn’t a lack of…

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2020/03/01 #SundaySentence

Posted on March 1, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

When someone, while having an asthma attack, says “I love you” or “I really love you”, there’s a difference. A word difference. And a word is a lot, because that word could have been “sit”, “Ventolin” or even “ambulance”. From Words by Etgar Keret Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of…

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2020/02/23 #SundaySentence

Posted on February 23, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

It is because you think if you own publishing you can control what’s printed, what’s written, what’s read? Well, lotsa luck, sir. It’s a common delusion of tyrants. Writers and readers, even as they suffer from it, regard it with amused contempt. by Margaret Atwood from her essay “Staying Awake” (Harper Magazine 2008) Sunday Sentence:…

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2020/02/16 #SundaySentence

Posted on February 16, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

Can Afric’s muse forgetful prove?
Or can such friendship fail to move
A tender human heart?
Immortal Friendship laurel-crown’d
The smiling Graces all surround
With ev’ry heav’nly Art

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2020/02/09 #SundaySentence

Posted on February 9, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

I came up in the sixties, which is way after everything else. But we always assumed that we knew white people, that we really sort of understood them. And I found out that if you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else. […go…]

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2020/02/02 #SundaySentence

Posted on February 2, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

Realism is more my ministry than is unbridled optimism. Hope is too ineffable and far too elusive. Hope allows us to leave what is possible in the hands of others. […go…]

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2020/01/26 #SundaySentence

Posted on January 26, 2020August 13, 2022 by cultured

We die only once, and for such a long time. […go…]

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