John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

Sudsy

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
- Sylvia Plath 

A thought on expectations

"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher

A thought on compromises

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
— Janis Joplin 

A thought from a modern Peter Pan

"As you go along, you realize that this whole concept of growing up is ... you're not grown up until the day they put you you six feet under. You're never grown up." 
— Keith Richards 

[As quoted in the documentary Keith Richards: Under the Influence.]

A thought on being newsworthy

"Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time."
— Tom Stoppard 

A thought on the odds

"I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against."
- Damon Runyon

 

A thought on winning (and losing)

 

“The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.”
- Caitlin Moran

 

A thought on going places

 

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

— Kurt Vonnegut

 

A thought on lives lived ... and described

"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
- Lytton Strachey 

A thought on the finer things

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." 
- Frank Lloyd Wright 

All those bad dreams

"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."
- Franz Kafka

You are what you overbear

"If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed."
-Kate Halverson

Transformation

"Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned."
- Mark Twain

Beyond reason

"Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable."
- Kurt Vonnegut  

[The image above is from the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library.]

Godliness

"The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's."
- Marianne Faithfull

A good reason to laugh

"Laughter is the language of the soul." 
- Pablo Neruda 

A thing about beauty

"Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming."
- Donna Tartt 

Slightly jealous

"I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I."
- Sylvia Plath 

Regeneration

"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
- Richard Carlyle 

For the realists

"I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is."
- Aretha Franklin

[The photo of Franklin, from 1968, is by Lee Friedlander.]

Whaddya got?

"I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion." 
- Marlon Brando, speaking about the unexpected consequences of his wardrobe from The Wild One

A good read

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
- Montesquieu, a.k.a., Charles De Secondat

Yet to come

"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
- Peter Ustinov 

The appeal of patience

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
- Benjamin Franklin 

[The cartoon above, showing Franklin carting off a Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich, "wit' onions, was seen here.]

 

 

Unstoppable

"You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it."
- Harry S. Truman