WIST Quotations

Lamott, Anne -- Post (2015-04-08), Facebook

Dave — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:52:27 +0000

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Anne Lamott (b. 1954) American novelist and non-fiction writer
Post (2015-04-08), Facebook
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Reprinted in her essay (2015-04-10), "Anne Lamott shares all that she knows," Salon.

Collected in Almost Everything, ch. 4 "Unplugged" (2018). (The quote is the full chapter.)

Nin, Anais -- The Novel of the Future, ch. 2 “Abstraction” (1968)

Dave — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:01:02 +0000

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) Catalan-Cuban-French author, diarist
The Novel of the Future, ch. 2 “Abstraction” (1968)
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Coolidge, Susan -- “New Every Morning”

Dave — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:36:09 +0000

Every morning is a fresh beginning,
Listen my soul to the glad refrain.
And, spite of old sorrows
And older sinning,
Troubles forecasted
And possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.

Susan Coolidge (1835-1905) American author [pseud. for Sarah Chauncey Woolsey]
“New Every Morning”

Jobs, Steve -- Speech (2005-06-12), Commencement Address, Stanford University

Dave — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:16:52 +0000

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Steve Jobs (1955-2011) American computer inventor, entrepreneur
Speech (2005-06-12), Commencement Address, Stanford University
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