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Quote-a-thon written @ 5:22 PM on August 09, 2002 Ryan, your entry was totally deep, dude. Okay, time for a quote-a-thon: "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." Mark Twain "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it." John Ruskin "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." Frank Zappa "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock." Will Rogers "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." Jack Benny "I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." Dan Quayle "I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican." Dan Quayle HA! "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get 8 cats to pull a sled through snow." Jeff Valdez "Never play leapfrog with a unicorn." Benny Hill "Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment." Arthur Gingold I think I meant to put these quotes in my scrapbook. I found them while cleaning my room today, among other, scarier things. I took down my glow-in-the-dark stars. They were always so pleasant to look at during nights when I couldn't sleep. It kind of reminded me how constant the stars are. And then even they do not always last forever. I want to put them up on the ceiling of my dorm with the large, blue unicorn flag I bought from the Renaissance festival one year. My roommate is going to think I'm crazy, but what the hell? I'm not out to please anyone anymore. I feel like I'm boxing up my childhood, trashing memories that I do not care if I keep or lose. Perhaps I am. The hardest part will be choosing which unicorns out of my collection of 1000 I have enough faith in to take with me. Do I take the ones that I've had since I began collecting when I was six, a reminder of childhood? Or do I take the prettier ones that remind one of ascending into an age of grace, the ones that are not riddled with age? Do I take the candles to provide that special light on the darkest of hours? Do I take the posters as a reminder of the magic I strive for in art? Do I take the clocks as a symbol of how little time a human really has to do what he or she set out to do? Do I take the tiny pins that act as my guardian angels under the collar of a sweater, or the pendants that I wear close to my heart? Or is it that I take their books, the ones that never fail to inspire me? Do I take the ones painted on mirrors that have those little inspirational poems, as if touching the stars were the easiest things to do in all the world? Are the snow globes more worthy as a symbol of change, the music boxes for the divine, or the tapestries that whisper of history to remind me of who I am and where I've come from? I have one week before I leave. I plan to go downtown tomorrow for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. That may very well be the last time I see the old Fellowship. My mom is planning something of a getaway before I go. And then for the rest of the week, I have to tie up the final loose ends. I may very well leave those loose ends unraveled.
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