"brilliant but cancelled"

 

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most famous yet unknown writer

 

on philandering

"He's a hard dog to keep on the porch."
- Attributed by Bill Maher [born 1956] to Hillary Clinton [born 1947]

after Rome failed

toyed with vegetarianism

Jesus' wife is the Grail

 

on suffering

“That which hurts, also instructs.”
― Benjamin Franklin [1706-1790]

end-stage syphilis

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” 

― Oscar Wilde [1854-1900],  The Picture of Dorian Grey

recovery mantras

Diego 

I did the things they say I did, but I'm not the thing they say I am.

Fabio

If you want what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done.

once spent then what?

But the half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.5 billion years, uranium-235 about 700 million years, and uranium-234 about 250 thousand years.

Source here.

robot bartender

 

heightened taste, smell

 Hemingway [1899-1961] preferred to be a foreigner in a foreign land.

OCD

"How come when you want things in order, they call that a disorder."
- Brian Regan [born 1958]

a waste of time

"The juice isn't worth the squeeze."

how are you?

 "I'm mentally ill and it keeps me pretty busy."

the future is crème brûlée

"Hold onto your spoons because dessert is coming."

- RuPaul [born 1960]

Americana

 

America's first poet

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."
- Walt Whitman [1819-1892] Leaves of Grass [1855]

Carr's most famous work

 

not in a court of law

"It's your actions that count, not your intention."
- Michael Mann [born 1943] whose credits include Miami Vice

weak, pitiful

 Tardigrades are the world's hardiest animals who can withstand boiling and freezing.

Sometimes it takes a moment to find your stride.

loved an audience

"He destroyed himself trying to stay true to the character he invented."

bene

"I love to feel insecure. In a way, it makes you feel creative ... it's like life; it's not forever. That's why it's precious."

- Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele [born 1972]

benefits individuals as well as the whole nation

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919], in his "Strenuous Life" speech given as New York Governor in Chicago, Illinois, on April 10, 1899.

If Van Gogh did it, why not me?

 

RIP

 "My life has been full of terrible misfortune, most of which never happened."

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Noumenon

"We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack." 
- Arthur Schopenhauer [1788-1860]

in the moment

"Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine. the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine."

- Horace [65 BCE-8 BCE]

glass and clay

 

on resilience

"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

- William Shakespeare [1564-1616]

don't worry

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trident and weighted net

 Same status as prostitutes and pimps.

forced into exile

"Estimates vary, but experts believe that at least 450,000 Grande Armée soldiers and perhaps as many as 650,000 ended up crossing the Niemen River to fight approximately 200,000 soldiers on the Russian side ... But less than 100,000 were around to retreat shortly after ... and with winter's onset, a small fraction made it all the way home."

best las vegas burger

 

greatest deathbed fear

To have ever said, "I am not brave."
- Viola Davis [born 1965]