Rambles

An occasional series of stray thoughts and incisive quotes ....

What use is the world to a man whose wife is a widow ...

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Sometimes I think my body has a mind of its own P.J. Galligan

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Communism is a form of Heavy Meitheal  P.J. Galligan

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Taste is a commodity and the weapon of a particular class  Bertolt Brecht

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An té a thabharfas scéal chughat tabharfaidh sé dhá scéal uait
He who comes to you with a story will bring two away.

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The powerful can't tell stories: boasts are the opposite of stories, and any story, however mild, has to be fearless: the powerful today live nervously.
Stories are one way of sharing the belief that justice is immanent. And for such a belief, children, women and men will fight at a given moment with astounding ferocity. This is why tyrants fear storytelling: all stories somehow refer to the story of their fall.  
John Berger from "Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls" in
Hold Everything Dear
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"Tá iasg 's a bh-fairge ní's fearr ná gabhadh a ríamh."
There is a fish in the sea better than ever was caught yet.
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 There is a genius in starting things  Goethe
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"Are you startin'? "  M.C. Lumphammer

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By day and night, fancy electronic dishes are trained to the heavens.They are listening for smudged echoes of the moment of creation. They are listening for the ghost of a chance. They may help us make sense of who we are and where we came from, and, as a compassionate side effect, teach us that nothing is ever lost. 
  Paddy McAloon, I trawl the MEGAHERTZ

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Folklore may prove to be, not a romantic and colourful ragbag of the discarded and outworn ideas of humanity, but one of the greatest wellsprings of the democratic attitudes that have in the past two centuries begun to make for a more
equitable life for all mankind on this planet.
Alan Lomax 1946

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A story takes shape only in the telling of it
Helas Pour Moi voiceover
Jean Luc Godard
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being
a common and widespread emotion.  
John Berger
  To be continued............

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