“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.”
― Guy de Maupassant
Denton, Texas
Conversation
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Being Crazy About a Woman Like Her’s Always the Right Thing To Do
“Is growin’ up always miserable?” Sonny asked. “Nobody seems to enjoy it much.”
“Oh, it ain’t necessarily misearble,” Sam replied. “About eighty percent of the time, I guess.”
They were silent again, Sam the Lion thinking of the lovely, spritely girl he had once led into the water, right there, where they were sitting.
“We ought to go to a real fishin’ tank next year,” Sam said finally. “It don’t do to think about things like that too much. If she were here now I’d probably be crazy again in about five minutes. Ain’t that ridiculous?”
A half-hour later, when they had gathered up the gear and were on the way to town, he answered his own question. “It ain’t really, ” he said. “Being crazy about a woman like her’s always the right thing to do. Being a decrepit old bag of bones is what’s ridiculous.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
Denton, Texas
I Told Them the Truth
“I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn’t like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.”
― Frank Norris, McTeague
Recycled Books
Denton, Texas
I Kept My Tune
“So I went ahead and made me a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”
― Lightnin’ Hopkins
Denton, Texas
Advice From Experts
Here’s some simple advice:
Always be yourself,
Never take yourself too seriously.And beware of advice from experts,
Pigs and members of Parliament.
—-Kermit the Frog
Denton, Texas
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Show’N Tell
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov
Store Window
Denton, Texas
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Tabasco and Log Cabin
“I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Dix Coney Island
Denton, Texas
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Everyone Who Is Not Happy Must Be Shot
“Everyone who is not happy must be shot.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl
Denton, Texas
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Every Child Is An Artist
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso
Recycled Books Records CDs
Denton, Texas
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The Color Of Love And Spanish Mysteries
“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Denton, Texas
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