Only Quotes (page 353)

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• misunderstanding
• new
• sum

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. Rainer Maria Rilke

• art
• excuses
• useless

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde

• beautiful
• beauty
• hair

Who says that fiction only and false hair become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? George Herbert

• watch
• i hate you
• time

Look. I see it. You can go to all the movies and watch all the television you want. I am the end of all time. I'm not hooked up to the machine. I don't care about being labelled a misogynist, misanthropic hate addict. I don't give a fuck if some human organism calls me politically incorrect. I like the idea of people getting killed in parking lots. I stab every person who passes me. In my mind, I stab them in the face with a fucking knife. If I thought I could get away with it, I would skin... Henry Rollins

• travel
• look
• walking

XXIXTraveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks. And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path. The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path. And turning, you look back. At a way you will never tread again. Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea. Antonio Machado

• beauty her
• beautiful
• beautiful her

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing. Helene Cixous

• time
• art
• philosophy

HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television. Tom Stoppard

• true
• may
• life

It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. Henry David Thoreau

• good
• angel
• evil

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia. Kurt Vonnegut

• believe
• purpose
• little

I believe the Savior is telling us that unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives. Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourish—and in effect save their lives. Thomas S. Monson

• enough
• lifetime
• conscious

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes. Christopher Hitchens

• boys
• she
• end

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit. Jane Austen

• lazy
• soul
• evil

A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark. Chaim Potok

• memories
• leaving
• earth

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. Chief Seattle

• question
• senator
• endlessly

There is a Senate and a Congress who carry on endless sessions discussing garbage disposal and outhouse inspection, the only two questions over which they have jurisdiction. William S. Burroughs