Not all erosion is bad. Without it, for example, there would be no beaches . ~ Carl Hershner


Next word; beaches

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I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world. . . . Perhaps you've seen it.
~ Steven Wright



Next word: collection

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus.

next word: manner

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages , and one soul is as good as another.
~George Bernard Shaw

Next word: carriage(s)

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
~Emily Dickinson

Next word: immortality

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon . ~ Susan Ertz, August


Next word; afternoon

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If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.
~ Alex Agase, requote



Next word: advice

"I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) US "essayist, poet, naturalist"
"""Walden,"" ""Economy,"" 1854."


next word: syllable

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
~Shakespeare, Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19–28

Next word: petty

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction . ~ Graham Greene


Next word; fiction

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When we risk no contradiction It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
~ John Gay, Fables, pt. I, 1727, The Elephant and the Bookseller



Next word: contradiction

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler (1934 - ____) US "educator, criminal justice specialist"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."

next word: deviancy

Deviance is profitable for those who study, prescribe, manufacture, and exercise social control techniques. It supports an "enormous enterprise" that includes, at all levels of government, police, judges, prison guards, probation officers, sociologists, psychologists, and doctors, in addition to private security firms, manufacturers of weapons, drugs, uniforms, vehicles, and so on. Deviance control is a sufficiently large enterprise with adequate political clout to ensure that is business will never decline substantially for want of offenders--real or imagined.~Craig B. Little

Next word: clout

That's for the readers to adjudge, but I will say that in general public commentators have nowhere near the clout that we enjoyed 35 years ago, the age of four TV channels and no Internet, ... As far as I'm concerned, it's all good. You can't have too many voices in a democracy. Talented people will find their audiences . ~ Garry Trudeau


Next word; audiences

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The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
~ Edward Albee



Next word: critics

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next word: soldier

"A farmer, a hunter, a soldier , a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep."

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) US "essayist, poet, naturalist"
"""Walden,"" ""Winter Visitors"" (1854)."

next word: actuated

He that neglects to actuate such discourses loses the benefit of his meditation . ~ Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. I. iii. §12, 88 1649


Next word; meditation

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I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
~ Benjamin Disraeli



Next word: conviction

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music . . .~Ezra Pound

Next word: atrophy