We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
ANNE CARSONI feel an army in my fist.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN -
You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.
DAVID GOGGINS -
There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
BILL SKARSGARD -
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Lightning is a pure expression of firebending without aggression.
UNCLE IROH -
I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.
BILL BARICH -
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR -
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
POPE LEO XIII -
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
ALAIN DE BOTTON -
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
CHARLES SPURGEON -
The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.
BILL LEE -
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
BILL RUSSELL -
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
SIMONE WEIL -
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
TYLER PERRY -
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI