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Peter Matthiessen quote: "We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we..."
We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread. Peter Matthiessen
Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. Black Elk
Serving men cleared away the swan, hardly touched. Cersei beckoned for the sweets. "I hope you like blackberry tarts." "I love all sorts of tarts." "Oh, I've know that for a long while. Do you know why Varys is so dangerous?" "Are we playing riddles now? No." "He doesn't have a cock." "Neither do you." And don't you just hate that, Cersei? "Perhaps, I'm dangerous too. You, on the other hand, are as big a fool as every other man. That worm between your legs does half... George R. R. Martin
Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples w/ a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface & must nourish from below, tending to it's root, keeping itself alive Mitch Albom
Alice Walker quote: "She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to..."
She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. Alice Walker
Well open up your mind and see like me Open up your plans and damn you're free Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing, we're just one big family It's our God-forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved((I'm Yours)) Jason Mraz
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach quote: "We must play from the soul, not like trained birds."
We must play from the soul, not like trained birds. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
And what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?"You get to be obsessed and angry," Tom said. "And they get to be the age they are, and act like teenagers if they want to. There is a zero-percent chance you will change them. So we breathe in, and out, talk to friends, as needed. We show up, wear clean underwear, say hello to strangers. We plant bulbs, and pick up litter, knowing there will be more in twenty minutes. We pray that we might cooperate with any flicker of light... Anne Lamott
As a final test, I tried to look Arthur in the eyes. But no, this time-honoured process didn't work. Here were no windows to the soul. They were merely part of his face, light-blue jellies, like naked shell-fish in the cervices of a rock. There was nothing to hold the attention; no sparkle, no inward gleam. Try as I would, my glance wandered way to more interesting features; the soft, snout-like nose, the concertina chin. After three or four attempts, I gave it up. It was no good. There was... Christopher Isherwood
As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones--my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man. Tad Williams
Charlaine Harris quote: "[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll..."
[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you."[Sookie:] "Like a fungus? Charlaine Harris
Going up, Herzong found a bouquet of violets, dropped from the hand of a woman. Perhaps a bride. Little perfume remained in them, but they made him remember... These violets smelled to him like female tears. He gave them a burial in the trash ca, hoping they had not dropped from a disappointed hand. Saul Bellow
Norman Mailer quote: "and dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street..."
...and dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside. Norman Mailer
So when at times the mob is swayed. To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star. To stay our minds on and be staid. Robert Frost
It’s one of those unpleasant opioid feverish half-sleep states, more a fugue-state than a sleep-state, less a floating than like being cast adrift on rough seas, tossed mightily in and out of this half-sleep where your mind’s still working and you can ask yourself whether you’re asleep even as you dream. And any dreams you do have seem ragged at the edges, gnawed on, incomplete. David Foster Wallace

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