John's Dura Mater Blog

"The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the  surface: and why not?  Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. ”   ― Truman Capote , Other Voices, Other Rooms

"The Veteran" by Dorothy Parker When I was young and bold and strong, Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong!  My plume on high, my flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. "Come out, you dogs, and fight!'' said I, And wept there was but once to die. But I am old; and good and bad Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say, "The world is so; And he is wise who lets it go. A battle lost, a battle won-- The difference is small, my son.'' Inertia rides and riddles me; The which is called Philosophy. 

Dorothy Parker "Superfluous Advice" by Dorothy Parker Should they whisper false of you. Never trouble to deny; ... Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and swear they lie.

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ―  William Shakespeare ,  A Midsummer Night's Dream