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quote of the day — for gene

“You can be at ease only with those people to whom you can say any damn fool thing that comes into your head, knowing they will respond in kind, and knowing that any misunderstandings will be thrashed out right now, rather than buried deep and given a chance to fester.”
— from Darker Than Amber, by John D. MacDonald

Today’s quote is in honor of my best friend Gene, who died a few days ago. He loved books and talking about books even more than I did. He loaned me all of his John D. MacDonald “Travis McGee” books about fifteen years ago and I never got around to giving them back. I’m glad now that I still have them.

I’ll get back to blogging soon. My heart is broken right now and I don’t feel much like writing at the moment.

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A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. — Mark Twain

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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.  –  Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction?  Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

     —Mark Twain

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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.  — Iris Murdoch

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Earth’s the right place for love; I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

–Robert Frost

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

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Celebrate your existence!  –  William Blake

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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.  –  George Eliot

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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. — Caroline Gorden

(taken from the Florida Writers Association Sarasota Chapter’s November newsletter)

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Bibliotherapy  — Books as relief from anxieties…an interdisciplinary field that combines (the) skills of psychotherapists, librarians and educators.  Books are selected to promote normal development and to change disturbed patterns of behavior.

                —- Facing Fears:The Sourcebook for Phobias, Fears and Anxieties by Ada P. Kahn, Ph.D. and Ronald M. Doctor, Ph.D.