Thy Quotes (page 47)

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• sad
• brain
• brainly

This is my brain: OThis is my brain after making out with Fang: *It's very sad. James Patterson

• contentment
• earth
• content

This is the last of earth! I am content. John Quincy Adams

• placing
• here
• places

This is the place of places and and it is here. Gertrude Stein

• dream
• writing
• book

This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it Craig Ferguson

• dear
• cheap
• after

This it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• book
• fills
• booked

This book fills a much-needed gap. Moses Hadas

• powerful
• power
• dark

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power. Chuck Palahniuk

• depression
• little
• easy

...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a little depressing. David Foster Wallace

• imagination
• arrogant
• new

this sort of, arrogant individualism which imagines each new generation can somehow create the world afresh. Helen Fielding

• work
• good
• art

This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example... Susan Sontag

• die
• heart
• she

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity. Joseph Stalin

• philosophy
• men
• vote

This is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a place where resolutions can be voted and amended, but a place where men can be crowned and crucified. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• forest
• eating
• forever

This Forest eats itself and lives forever. Barbara Kingsolver

• die
• him
• sharing

This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him. Thomas Merton

• love
• dark
• words

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark. Barbara Kingsolver