You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be...
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way...
What is your itinerary?To meet my maker.Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?A most mechanical and dirty hand {laughs}. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The...
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities,...
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.
once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?
We were in the gondolas at The Venetian. You said you couldn't swim, that I'd have to save you if we capsized.His Adam's apple jumped. Yeah.I was terrified for you.I know. You hung onto me so tight I...
A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and...
James Hollis correctly observes, Wisdom is always humbling, never inflationary. . . . The realistic thinking of midlife has as its necessary goal the righting of a balance, the restoration of a person...
He glanced at me, then chuckled. Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Mark Nepo
before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
We are aware that the gods of patriarchy are pale derivatives and reversals of ancient yet always Present Goddess{es}. We suspect that phallocentric writers and artists who have even a glimmer of...
enjoyed both places. But it's nice
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the bold. He'd been bold all right, but Fortune hadn't gotten the memo.
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.
The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between...
The heart is an organ of perception.
So what do you do while you're living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and...
One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that "what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything."12
...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like {Chris Kimsington}.
The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability-true stability-is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.
then they had pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic, and a bottle of portuguese red wine."my god, we're going to stink after this," angela said.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
Originally, it was believed that witches possessed the power of glamour and according to the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, witches by their glamour could cause the male 'member' to disappear. In...
Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like...
There are some people who hate for no reason at all. They just simply hate. They do not realize that their unjustified hatred inevitably turns inward to destroy them. Yes, it is self-destructive in...
Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.
Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
