/* This JavaScript (Random Quotes) developed by Scott Clark
The Source is available at http://www.clarksco.com/blog/
Copyright 2005 Clark Consulting */

var num_of_quotes = 45;
quotes = Math.floor (num_of_quotes * Math.random());

if (quotes==0) {
title="“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”";
body=" – Edward Sapir";
}

if (quotes==1) {
title="“Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run.”";
body=" –“To His Coy Mistress,” Andrew Marvell";
}

if (quotes==2) {
title="”All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking.”";
body=" –“Meditations at Lagunitas,”  Robert Hass";
}

if (quotes==3) {
title="“Sarah: That's not fair! <br>Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?”";
body=" – <i>Labyrinth,</i>  film 1986";
}

if (quotes==4) {
title="“Early that first morning, before the birds shook the dew off their backs, before the street sweepers emerged, before even one footprint appeared on the deck of a sailing boat or one short-order cook took stock of his eggs, even before God thrust his great clammy hands down through the mist and grabbed South Florida in his hot, pulsing grip, Mercury Gant stepped out into the dawn and prepared to abandon his life.”";
body=" –<i>A Cure for Gravity,</i> Arthur Rosenfeld";
}

if (quotes==5) {
title="“I really do think we have to take our dirt with us wherever we go.  We are dirt.  We are Earth.”";
body=" –the introduction to <i>A Fisherman of the Inland Sea,</i>  Ursula K. Le Guin";
}

if (quotes==6) {
title="“I said what I meant,” the boy says.  “Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.”";
body=" – “The Sky is Gray,” Ernest J. Gaines";
}

if (quotes==7) {
title="“It wasn’t a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that’s the weather for you.  For every mad scientist who’s had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who’ve sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime.”";
body=" -<i>Good Omens,</i> Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett";
}

if (quotes==8) {
title="“But some sage persons may perhaps object, that were women allowed to improve themselves, […] they would be too wise for the men.  I grant it, for vicious and foolish men.”";
body=" –“Some Reflections Upon Marriage,” Mary Astell";
}

if (quotes==9) {
title="“Oh, he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!  a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”";
body=" –<i>A Christmas Carol</i>, Charles Dickens";
}

if (quotes==10) {
title="“The Colonel stood up, and turned straight toward her. She saw dark skin and the eyes of a ferocious puma, and she knew immediately that she was standing before the loneliest man in the world.” ";
body=" –“Two Words,” Isabel Allende";
}

if (quotes==11) {
title="“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.”";
body=" –<i>Angela's Ashes</i>, Frank McCourt";
}

if (quotes==12) {
title="“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ";
body=" –<i>The Bell Jar</i>, Sylvia Plath";
}

if (quotes==13) {
title="“All poets are mad.” ";
body=" –Robert Burton";
}

if (quotes==14) {
title="“The planet Mercury sings like a crystal goblet.” ";
body=" –<i>The Sirens of Titan</i>, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.";
}

if (quotes==15) {
title="“Stone walls do not a prison make,<br>Nor iron bars a cage;<br>Minds innocent and quiet take<br>That for an hermitage<br>If I have freedom in my love,<br>and in my soul am free,<br>Angels alone, that soar above,<br>Enjoy such liberty.” ";
body=" –<i>To Althea, from Prison</i>, Richard Lovelace";
}

if (quotes==16) {
title="“Almost without exception every great library, from the days of classical Athens to the Age of Reason, has been built on holy ground. The reason is plain. Of all the devices of magic by which a king maintains his sway over his subjects, the magic of the written word is the most potent.” ";
body=" –<i>The Origins of the English Library</i>, Raymond Irwin";
}

if (quotes==17) {
title="“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.” ";
body=" –<i>The Story of My Life</i>, Helen Keller";
}

if (quotes==18) {
title="“I am a little world made cunningly<br>Of elements, and an angelic sprite.” ";
body=" –from Holy Sonnets #5, John Donne";
}

if (quotes==19) {
title="“Literature--the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.” ";
body=" –John Morley";
}

if (quotes==20) {
title="“Oats. <i>n.</i> A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” ";
body=" –<i>A Dictionary of the English Language</i>, Samuel Johnson";
}

if (quotes==21) {
title="“A great library cannot be constructed--it is the growth of ages.” ";
body=" –<i>The Book-Hunter</i>, John Hill Burton";
}

if (quotes==22) {
title="“Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.” ";
body=" –Thomas Carlyle";
}

if (quotes==23) {
title="“Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe<br>Where every book is thy epitaph.” ";
body=" –Henry Vaughan, <i>On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library</i>";
}

if (quotes==24) {
title="“A wondrous thing happened at sea: the water turned to bone.” ";
body=" –Anglo-Saxon Riddle, The Exeter Book";
}

if (quotes==25) {
title="“The greatest part of the writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” ";
body=" –Samuel Johnson";
}

if (quotes==26) {
title="“Certainly the Age of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.” ";
body=" –Thomas Carlyle";
}

if (quotes==27) {
title="“The throat pain always returns, though, unless I tell what I really think, whether or not I lose my job, or spit out gaucheries all over a party.” ";
body=" –<i>The Woman Warrior</i>, Maxine Hong Kingston";
}

if (quotes==28) {
title="“Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be.” ";
body=" –<i>Sula</i>, Toni Morrison";
}

if (quotes==29) {
title="“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.” ";
body=" –<i>A Room of One's Own</i>, Virginia Woolf";
}

if (quotes==30) {
title="“As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.” ";
body=" –Aereopagitica, John Milton";
}

if (quotes==31) {
title="“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens--second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.” ";
body=" –<i>A Palpable God</i>, Reynolds Price";
}

if (quotes==32) {
title="“'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.'” ";
body=" –<i>The Once and Future King</i>, T.H. White";
}

if (quotes==33) {
title="“They that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.” ";
body=" –Wm. Shakespeare";
}

if (quotes==34) {
title="“Runaway thought, I wanted to write it; instead, I write that it has run away.” ";
body=" –Blaise Pascal";
}

if (quotes==35) {
title="“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy.” ";
body=" –Jack Kerouac";
}

if (quotes==36) {
title="“Between my finger and my thumb<br>That squat pen rests.<br>I'll dig with it.” ";
body=" –Seamus Heaney";
}

if (quotes==37) {
title="“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.” ";
body=" –G.K. Chesterton";
}

if (quotes==38) {
title="“An intelligent person often talks with his eyes; a shallow person often swallows with his ears.” ";
body=" –Mr. Tut-Tut";
}

if (quotes==39) {
title="“That which we call sin in others is experiment in us.” ";
body=" –R.W. Emerson";
}

if (quotes==40) {
title="“Here we don't die, we shop.<br>But the difference is less marked than you think.” ";
body=" –Don DeLillo";
}

if (quotes==41) {
title="“There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't.<br>With the first, content and form belong together like the soul and body; with the second, they match each other like the body and clothes.” ";
body=" –Karl Kraus";
}

if (quotes==42) {
title="“Machines are better than people.<br>People go further than they should.” ";
body=" –An autistic child";
}

if (quotes==43) {
title="“Readers of poetry know that no part of a poem can be slighted... and they do not rest until every part has been given a significance.” ";
body=" –Stanley Fish";
}

if (quotes==44) {
title="“For poetry is not 'Devil's wine' but God's wine.” ";
body=" –Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson";
}
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