Thy Quotes (page 46)

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• one word
• words
• hard

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. Neil Gaiman

• world
• formed
• planet

This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative that defined every breath of the planet's living billions. Don DeLillo

• saying
• drawing
• choose

This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the shortest line between two given points,—and so, in order to make it more easy for myself, I, intending to draw a straight, will choose for my model a crooked line." The weaker my hand, the greater the need that my model should be perfect. Leo Tolstoy

• lies
• bored
• look

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. Arthur Conan Doyle

• story
• stories
• imaginary

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? Alan Moore

• calm
• deserving it
• deserves

This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet. Haruki Murakami

• life
• reading
• slow

This life is slow suicide, unless you read. Herman Wouk

• saying
• dirty
• lost

This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well. Orson Scott Card

• book
• end
• booked

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end Heinrich Heine

• simple
• thinking
• innocent

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled. Martin Luther

• health
• caring
• dirty

this is actualy a poemwe have been callednaiveas if it were a dirty word, whe have been calledinnocentas though with shameour cheeks should burnsowe visit withthe careful idolsof cynisismto learn to sneerand pant and walkso as not to feel the scalesof judgement rub wronglybut we saysome things mustremain simplesome things must remainuntouchedand purelest we all forgetthe legacy we begot usthe health of our originsthe poetry of our fundemental selves Jewel

• life
• fear
• literature

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Julian Barnes

• movie
• world
• worldly

This world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is. Jack Kerouac

• time
• famous
• feeling

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time. A. J. Jacobs

• age
• age of reason
• ages

This then is the age of reason. Jean-Paul Sartre