Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

-Erica Jong

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?…Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

-Oscar Wilde

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

- Aphra Behn

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

-Mario Puzo

-Charlotte Whitton

Yet another time the Box features a quotation on Stupidity, with a capital “S”. My motivator, and the clue behind the semi-repetition, is a comment that went unpublished, which I received today. This comment made me praise the wisdom of my creator, because he made some intelligent and some less sharp. Such a miracle when one reflects on it. Not to mention the many thanks and the growing fondness I am manifesting towards Blogger, and the comments moderation system.

I believe some obstacles exist in one’s life only to push one to give more. I have many a blockage of the sort, some more potent than others. What they serve to do is quite the contrary of what they were designed for. Therefore, allow me to be a bit informal and express my pity for the person who has been trying for around six months now to put me down. What a better way to tantalize than not to dignify a trifle with a proper answer? Let the moth that roams around a lightsource consume itself; watch as it never quenches its lust for a reward.

I had wished to receive constructive critique of a thought expressed in one of the entries. Perhaps even a suggestion for a novice topic or series. I imagined one would send off an intriguing idea, a word of advice, make that what you wish provided it is of use and essence. Any individual with a sense of right and wrong would abhor nonesense, not everyone can avoid delivering it though,that is tricky business. What makes this a passing disease is the presence of many a sensible reader, a thoughtful commentator, or a reflective friend. For those, and for the dim-witted, thanks are due.

Dear readers of Tololy’s Box, I hope for your understanding of the matter. I cannot promise that I will post no more quotations on this particular subject, Stupidity, as long as I receive such nonesense from a weakling. I hope I did not come across as a fuming voice through a blog. I am rather amused at this, it makes me scratch my head and think of better entries for the Box, if only to exhibit triumph over the “blockage”.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.

-Aristotle