Cans Quotes (page 424)

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• love
• humanity
• wellness

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. Jane Austen

• drinking
• manly
• manned

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said Cormac McCarthy

• peace
• look
• eating

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. Franz Kafka

• friends
• friend
• end

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor. Jimmy Buffett

• manly
• feeling
• past

I won’t lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who’s had you—you’d be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. Sylvia Day

• thinking you
• thinking
• only

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. Margaret Atwood

• new york
• new
• spit

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. Lewis Grizzard

• pride
• fear
• gratitude

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. Louisa May Alcott

• time
• she
• thoughts

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. Betty Smith

• dream
• lifetime
• expectation

Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope, all that Personal Identity Crap can... Chuck Palahniuk

• star
• culture
• rock

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it. Bono

• die
• who
• here

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. Sue Monk Kidd

• look
• clouds
• fall

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket. Margaret Atwood

• faith
• technology
• get

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285). Don DeLillo

• personal
• distance
• accounting

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability. David McCullough