Where Quotes (page 215)

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• alone
• leaving
• follow

Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo! J. R. R. Tolkien

• happy
• farewell
• joy

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. John Milton

• time
• my everything
• times

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late. Hunter S. Thompson

• chemistry
• god
• morning

On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladie? straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life... Annie Dillard

• writing
• forward
• hope

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen. Anne Lamott

• go
• monster
• going

Midian is where the monsters go. Clive Barker

• would
• escaped
• knowingly

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. Oscar Wilde

• saying
• bed
• i dont care

The following night she came to his bed and she came every night for nine nights running, pushing the door shut and latching it and turning in the slatted light at God knew what hour and stepping out of her clothes and sliding cool and naked against him in the narrow bunk all softness and perfume and the lushness of her black hair falling over him and no caution to her at all. Saying I dont care I dont care. Drawing blood with her teeth where he held the heel of his hand against her mouth... Cormac McCarthy

• forever
• more
• belongs

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. Daphne du Maurier

• expectation
• style
• world

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. Raymond Chandler

• manly
• he
• action

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective. Joseph Brodsky

• calm
• old
• life

you are not too old and it is not too lateto dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret Rainer Maria Rilke

• humanity
• learning
• people

And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people are concerned--even the people who love you--and that is all right. It can be lived with. Richard Ford

• rainbow
• road
• manly

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how? Jack Kerouac

• mind
• mindfulness
• minded

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds. Ram Dass