85th.

"The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both." - Susan Sontag




Photo is "The LIttle Writer" - from Raccoon with a cigar.

84th.

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you." - Ralph Nader




Photo is "Politics" - from Aeris144.

83rd.

"Romantic love is a mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw." - Fran Lebowitz




Photo is "The Perfect Drug" - from Kamorek.

82nd.

"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women." - Groucho Marx




Photo is "With Reverence" - from Author Unknown.

81st.

"Did you ever, you start, wear a certain kind of dress and just by accident, so inconsequential you barely notice it, your fingers graze that dress and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper, you see it too and you realize how that image is simply the extension of another image, that your own life is a chain of words that one day will snap." - Ai




Photo is "Floating Away" - from jonastomter.

80th.

"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor." - Walt Whitman




Photo is "Forgiven" - from teresa lynn.

79th.

"This the month summer and winter fall into each other and leave orange yellow ashes, the vibrancy of death, carry it all in my belly, cut on the cusp of libra tail, tip the scales, tonight it is raining in the tradition of my parents, wanted a daughter not a writer ... leaves and leaving have known my name intimately, I harvest pumpkins to offer the river, eat buttered phoenix meat to celebrate a new year, new cipher for my belly, I got a new name, secret nobody knows, leaving won't know where to find me, October gonna hide me in her harvest, in her seasons, Happy birthday daughter of the falling." - Suheir Hammad




Photo is "In October" - from raun.

78th.

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day." - Rainer Maria Rilke




Photo is "Imitation of Life" - from Nephilim.

77th.

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." - Anne Sexton




Photo is "First ID" - from artfoto.

76th.

"'The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.' The night wind whirls in the sky and sings." - Pablo Neruda




Photo is "Rainbow Stars" - from homigl14.