Monday, March 2, 2009

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"As the fiftieth birthday approaches, you get the sense that your life is thinning out, and will continue to thin out, until it thins out into nothing. And you sometimes say to yourself: That went a bit quick. That went a bit quick. In certain moods, you may want to put it rather more forcefully. "

- Martin Amis, from his novel The Pregnant Widow.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Mar. 19, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for March 2, 2009


So close to something, I feel it,
All alone, I can't help believing -
Here I go into the Great Unknown
No one can tell me where I'm gonna be

- Paul Quarrington, writer and musician, from his song "Are You Ready". He wrote the song shortly before his death from lung cancer. Quarrington wrote a memoir of his last days called Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life, which includes a CD with this and other songs.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 16, 2008