“War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few.” — Smedley Butler

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” — Thomas Mann

“Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Thou hast seen nothing yet.” — Miguel de Cervantes

“There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.” — Tom Waits

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.” — John Steinbeck

Just a miniature post today. We headed north through the rain to Duluth yesterday. Got a very nice room (pics below) but WiFi is not working and even my Bluetooth hotspot is crap so this very brief post

“I write to get the nightmares out of my head and into yours.” — Cormac McCarthy

“Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.” — William Safire

“Anything you can settle with money is cheap.” — Erich Maria Remarque

“But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.” — Lewis Carroll

“We’re all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.” — Robert Bloch

“None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.” — Joko Beck

“There’s something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories.” — Donald Trump

“One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.” — Raymond Queneau

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” — Karl Popper

“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.” — Robert Penn Warren

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” — Thomas Mann

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” — David Foster Wallace

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James Baldwin