Thing Quotes (page 651)

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• love
• film
• hard

Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?” This film came out at the height of the Vietnam War. I love that line. That’s gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding. Haruki Murakami

• caring
• people
• things

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things. David Baldacci

• look
• wonder
• mirror

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was. Ken Kesey

• growth
• world
• luxury

When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root. Lao Tzu

• funny
• music
• thinking

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it. Miles Davis

• money
• morning
• hangover

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers. Charles Bukowski

• theatre
• worst thing
• usefulness

The anachronism is the worst thing to use at the theatre. Albert Camus

• understanding
• beyond
• understandable

Some things were beyond understanding. Nicholas Sparks

• book
• dead
• die

The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore flicking through a book called something like 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (and, without naming names, you should be aware that the task set by the title is by definition impossible, because at least four hundred of the books suggested would kill you anyway), but reading begets reading--that's sort of the point of it, surely?--and anybody who never deviates from a set list of... Nick Hornby

• sky
• tuesday
• country

When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. J. K. Rowling

• great
• death
• gift

Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow to great to be borne, the angel takes us. George R. R. Martin

• mostly
• voice
• siding

And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus. Vladimir Nabokov

• unknowns
• beings
• unknown things

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. Anita Brookner

• life
• simple
• making

Life is simple. You're the one making things complex. Sue Grafton

• love
• work
• history

But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word ‘artificial.’ Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many dresses, many works of art are branded with artificiality because the exhibit vanity and self-consciousness: as if vanity were not a deep and elemental thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Vanity may be found in darkling deserts, in the hermit and in the wild beasts that crawl around... Gilbert K. Chesterton