Guardsman-A-Day

  We have arrived, my friends at a milestone (of sorts) 1500 posts. Somehow there's still more to say.

  "What is precious inside you does not want  to be known by the mind in ways that would diminish its presence." Diane Long

  "Go, drag the villain by the hair; Nor age nor honour shall shape privledge. --- For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughter-man; S...

  “Power is not a means; it is an end.  One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution  ...

  "Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had." Raymond Chandler, The Long ...

  "Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position." Richard Diebenkorn

  "No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." Edward Hopper

 

  "I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life." William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra, Act v Scene ii

"There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell divide themselves between you!" William Shakespeare Cymbeline, Act II Scene IV

 

  "Home without boots, and in foul weather How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?" William Shakespeare First Part of K...

 

  "They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black a...

  "The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its stra...