Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Quote of the Day (Anne Tyler, on Biting One’s Tongue)

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“Someday I'd like to get credit for not saying all the things I could have said.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Anne Tyler, T...
Monday, December 15, 2025

TV Quote of the Day (‘Barney Miller,’ As Fish Receives a Stupefying Retirement Gift)

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Det. Phil Fish [ played by Abe Vigoda ] [ opens his present ]: “What is it?” Det. Stan “Wojo” Wojciehowicz [ played by Max Gail ]: “It...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Photo of the Day: Carrie Tower, Brown University

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In late October 10 years ago, I visited Brown University while vacationing in Providence, R.I. I was impressed with the architecture of the...

Spiritual Quote of the Day (Sholom Aleichem, on Not Being ‘Worried About God So Much’)

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“I wasn’t worried about God so much. I could come to terms with Him one way or another. What bothered me was people. Why should human beings...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Photo of the Day: Toni Morrison ‘Bench by the Road’ Project, Nyack, NY

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Besides Carson McCullers, the Nyack area’s other major literary luminary was Toni Morrison . While walking in the village’s Memorial Park a ...

Quote of the Day (Chaim Grade, on an Annoying Son-In-Law)

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“It vexed him that his son-in-law replied to every question, ‘What do I know?’”— Lithuanian-born Yiddish novelist and poet Chaim Grade (1910...
Friday, December 12, 2025

TV Quote of the Day (Norm Macdonald, on 20th-Century German Militarism)

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“The entire earth, there’s only one country that frightens me – that’s the country of Germany. I don’t know if you guys are students of hist...