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You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death. Gene Wolfe
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. Jane Austen
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair Terry Eagleton
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start. Sylvia Plath
Derrick Jensen quote: "We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as..."
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water. Derrick Jensen
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been... C. S. Lewis
The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity. Jack Henry Abbott
Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher? Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on? Calvin Trillin
The art of one's own time tends to be formidable . . . because we have to learn how and where to take hold of it, what response is being asked of us, before we can get involved. It's truly new, and therefore truly a bit frightening. Ursula K. Le Guin
Robert Fulghum quote: "Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time..."
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. Robert Fulghum
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as..."
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them. Chuck Palahniuk
For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies. Richard Adams
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse. Graham Greene
Baroness Orczy quote: "Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you..."
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine Baroness Orczy
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial..."
So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self. Elizabeth Gilbert

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