Am Quotes (page 176)

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• evening
• juan
• nobody

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.Don Juan Matus Carlos Castaneda

• concern
• concerned
• as far as

You're terrific as far as I am concerned. E. B. White

• hope
• love
• turtle

I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted. Dorothy Allison

• time
• positive
• giving

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

• life
• victory
• dead

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me! Terry Goodkind

• world
• finishers
• gladness

I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• thoughts
• mind
• mindfulness

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Saul Bellow

• you me
• god
• chance

GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me. Dave Eggers

• evening
• reading
• experience

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful bookis one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every timeor even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself. Nora Ephron

• not knowing
• proud
• sufficient

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. Vladimir Nabokov

• life
• beautiful
• beauty

I am going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life. Elsie de Wolfe

• world
• ways
• absolute

This is the one and onlyfirmament; thereforeit is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this worldare the ways of Heaven. Allen Ginsberg

• best
• refusal
• i am the best

I refuse putting from me the best that I am. Walt Whitman

• being used
• sometimes
• new

I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a caf or on the telephone? Tom Waits

• fear
• doubt
• disorder

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. William James