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Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him......"

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

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This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope. Richard Adams
Buddy Hackett quote: "My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it."
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. Buddy Hackett
Martin Heidegger quote: "The nothing nothings."
The nothing nothings. Martin Heidegger
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. Gustav Heinemann
Billie Jean King quote: "I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality..."
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it. Billie Jean King
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!"
Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moliere quote: "I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. Moliere
At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices. David Guterson
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself."(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958) Bernard Malamud
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own. Nick Hornby
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. Ernest Thompson Seton
A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can’t afford to admit — no matter how often he’s reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley… Hunter S. Thompson
Walter Benjamin quote: "No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the..."
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Walter Benjamin
Richard Serra quote: "But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than..."
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself. Richard Serra
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I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong. Samuel Butler