Saturday Snippets: Fragments of Imagination and Observation

The other night I decided to do something useful: cleaned some of the debris and scraps of miscellany off my desk. What follows are various notes, interspersed with a few quotes from other sources. Every once in a while you just gotta do it.

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"Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain..." Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet

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His method: Following an idea as far as it would go.

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Don't gather 'round people
don't go out and roam.
Please stay in your houses 
and please stay at home.

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As I was walking into town
I met a man whose head was down;
He used to be a happy clown
But now he only wears a frown

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I'm so old I can still remember when it was illegal to break the law.

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She gave him a tornado and said, "Let's go for a ride."
"I'm a little burned out, and it's late," he replied.

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One good thing about reading a lot of Solzhenitsyn & writing about it
is that you learn how to spell his name without having to look it up.

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How did it happen that people created a special day to be tricksters?

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The next person who asks me for for a glass of pineapple juice mixed with grapefruit is gonna get a punch.

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"The best conversations... start over good food." 
Printed inside lid of Mezzetta Imported Capers

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"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
--Frederick Chopin

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"The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route." --George Sand  

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Meantime life goes on all around you. Make the most of it.