"I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most."
-Margaret Atwood
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William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. From The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger -- “If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early -- “If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless -- “If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won’t understand what Bastian did next.” "If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day."
-Leonard Cohen Zora Neale Hurston said, "I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions."
HA! Quotes from Sir Terry Pratchett's works. This quote from Terry Pratchett's book, Equal Rites, holds tremendous appeal to my self-indulgent sense of intellectual snobbery! "They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things." "His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old." - Guards! Guards! If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. -Terry Pratchett
October 2015
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail - Jerome Lawrence & Robert Lee La Seduction - Elaine Sciolini Aphrodite - Isabel Allende Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman Away In Virginia, I See a Mustard Field And Think Of You
by Barbara Crooker because the blue hills are like the shoulder and slopes of your back as you sleep. Often I slip a hand under your body to anchor myself to this earth. The yellow mustard rises from a waving sea of green. I think of us driving narrow roads in France, under a tunnel of sycamores, my hair blowing in the hot wind, opera washing out of the radio, loud. We are feeding each other cherries from a white paper sack. And then we return to everyday life, where we fall into bed exhausted, fall asleep while still reading, forget the solid planes of the body in the country of dreams. I miss your underwear, soft from a thousand washings, the socks you still wear from a store out of business thirty years. I love to smell your sweat after mowing grass or hauling wood; I miss the weight on your side of the bed. "Away In Virginia, I See a Mustard Field And Think Of You" by Barbara Crooker from Radiance. © Grayson Books, 2014. "People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with." - Scottie Fitzgerald, (daughter of the other)
"... if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." ~ Thoreau "Not knowing the Second Law of Thermodynamics is like never having read a work of Shakespeare." ~ English novelist and scientist C.P. Snow "I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by," ~ "Sea Fever", by John Masefield Ernest Rutherford, physicist: "I haven't the money, so I've got to think." "All science is either physics, or stamp collecting." |
iGallivant...Between two evils, I like to pick the one I haven't tried before. - Mae West Archives
March 2021
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