Otherness Quotes (page 304)

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• marriage
• marriages
• reconnect

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again. Felicity Huffman

• headache
• end
• your life

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache. Fulton J. Sheen

• memories
• making memories
• memorial

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. Alexander Dumas

• poetry
• earth
• colorful

Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness. Czeslaw Milosz

• capacity
• had
• other

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it. Doris Lessing

• die
• world
• the who

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world. Haruki Murakami

• bible
• great
• drawing

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses. John Piper

• friends
• friend
• weird

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. James Patterson

• satisfying
• gone

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi

• political
• drawing
• manners

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making. Christopher Hitchens

• wisdom
• gains
• our

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others. James Lee Burke

• old
• smile
• hand

But you're dead," said Harry. "Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. "Then...I'm dead too?" "Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. "That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.” They looked at each other, the old man still beaming. "Not?" repeated Harry. "Not," said Dumbledore. "But…" Harry raised his hand instinctively toward the lightning scar. It did not seem to be there. "But I should have died—I didn't defend myself! I meant to let him kill... J. K. Rowling

• dream
• lies
• country

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out. Cormac McCarthy

• cover
• time
• difficult

One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks. Edward Abbey

• great
• sarcastic
• kindness

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable. Paramahansa Yogananda