Quotey McQuoteface

@mlevel
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Joined August 29, 2017. Quotes, photos, jokes, culture, history. San Francisco Bay Area. I edit for a living, and in my spare time I judge. :-) Pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-BLM, life-long liberal. I'm also at @mlevel.bsky.social; I try to post different stuff there.
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"I'd rather hit than have sex."
Reggie Jackson
(05/18/1946 – )
US baseball player
@ericphelps I've laid awake nights
"Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance."
Pope John Paul II
(05/18/1920 – 04/02/2005)
Polish religious leader
"Take your work seriously, but never yourself."
Dame Margot Fonteyn
(05/18/1919 – 02/21/1991)
English dancer
"Swan Lake": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i_4kWnC-JU
Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev "Swan Lake" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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"Life's been nothing but paperwork."
Gustav Mahler
(07/07/1860 – 05/18/1911)
Austrian composer
"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!"
George Meredith
(02/12/1828 – 05/18/1909)
English writer
I've been working out these Celtic knot-based designs. Here's a step-by-step instruction for the latest one, which I call "Basket Case III". https://www.flickr.com/photos/mlevel/albums/72177720333738693/
Making a Basket

Making a Celtic-knottish drawing, step by step

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"John [Ford] is half-tyrant, half-revolutionary; half-saint, half-satan; half-possible, half-impossible; half-genius, half-Irish."
Frank Capra
(05/18/1897 – 09/03/1991)
US film director
"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes."
Walter Gropius
(05/18/1883 – 07/05/1969
German architect
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Lord Bertrand Russell
(05/18/1872 – 02/02/1970)
Welsh philosopher