Thy Quotes (page 61)

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• girl
• girls
• fire

This is no place for a girl on fire. Suzanne Collins

• great
• greatness
• humanity

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. Neal Stephenson

• mountain
• climbing
• oneness

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. Dante Alighieri

• lies
• religious
• evening

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical. Craig Ferguson

• short
• book
• writing

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Stephen King

• tears
• seemed
• dropped

Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear... Alexander Pope

• powerful
• power
• end

This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal. Wendell Berry

• life
• complaints
• this life

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. Henry David Thoreau

• book
• reading
• favorite

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. William Goldman

• wisdom
• bridge
• responsibility

This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance. Margaret Atwood

• play
• life
• gold

This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. Paulo Coelho

• giving
• logic
• consequence

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. Bertrand Russell

• evening
• trust
• bird

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. Rainer Maria Rilke

• moments
• contains
• contain

This moment contains all moments. C. S. Lewis

• new
• moving away
• moments

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . . Italo Calvino