Thing Quotes (page 323)

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• women
• different
• losing

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure Dorothy Allison

• book
• comforting
• white

Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme; perhaps he never would. He could see though the book itself, he could feel its closed heft and see it opened, white pages comfortably large and shadowed gray by print; dense, numbered, full of meat. He sensed a narrative voice, speaking calmly... John Crowley

• end
• bed
• tea

Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours. Colleen McCullough

• art
• words
• city

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. Roger Zelazny

• reading
• believe
• she

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. Virginia Woolf

• writing
• hand
• life

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects. Toni Morrison

• thinking
• caring
• world

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it. David Attenborough

• manners
• justice
• manly

Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner man, only by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto us. Fulton J. Sheen

• happy
• him
• happy him

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. Margaret Atwood

• fighting
• worse
• scorpions

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young. Suzanne Collins

• sometimes
• truthfully
• sometime

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

• learning
• wisdom
• understanding

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.-Aunt Jimsie L. M. Montgomery

• great
• moments
• greatness

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. Joseph Campbell

• relationship
• separating
• remaining

What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown Immanuel Kant

• feeling
• logic
• you me

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of. J. D. Salinger