Going Quotes (page 639)
![Charles Bukowski quote: "(You can shoot a barracuda between the eyes and it won't go to..."](/pic/249012/600x316/quotation-charles-bukowski-you-can-shoot-a-barracuda-between-the-eyes.jpg)
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![Raymond Chandler quote: "I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I..."](/pic/248818/600x316/quotation-raymond-chandler-im-in-a-wild-mood-tonight-i-want-to-go-dance.jpg)
![Harrison Ford quote: "You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as..."](/pic/248805/600x316/quotation-harrison-ford-you-keep-on-going-until-you-get-it-as-close-to.jpg)
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.
Annie Dillard
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it...
Irvine Welsh
![Martin Luther quote: "I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against..."](/pic/248699/600x316/quotation-martin-luther-i-cannot-and-will-not-recant-anything-for-to-go.jpg)
But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult