But there were two things they agreed upon wholly and that were never spoken and that was that God had put horses on earth to work cattle and that other than cattle there was no wealth proper to a man.
I think the dead have no nationality.
Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
La gente si preparava sempre al domani. A me sembrava assurdo. Il domani non si stava certo preparando per loro. Non sapeva neppure che esistessero.
Every word we speak is a vanity. Every breath taken that does not bless is an affront. Bear closely with me now. There is another who will hear what you never spoke. Stones themselves are made of air. What they have power to crush never lived. In the end we shall all of us be only what we have made of God. For nothing is real save his grace.
The delicate cellular warfare in a waterdrop.
But who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe and so it was with these masons however primitive their works may seem to us.
Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.
The earth fell away on every side equally in its arcature and by these limits were they circumscribed and of them were they locus.
Quando non ti resta nient’altro imbastisci cerimoniali sul nulla e soffiaci sopra.
Cuando los corderos se pierden en el monte, dijo, se les oye llorar. Unas veces acude la madre. Otras el lobo. Les.
He saw men killed with guns and with knives and with ropes and he saw women fought over to the death whose value they themselves set at two dollars. He saw ships from the land of China.
The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments.
You’d be a woreout sumbuck. I’ll tell you that. Think how good you’d sleep.
When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home.
I’ve heard of some that was supposed to be better and I’m sure there were some better. I just never did see any of em.
These were the new protocols. Strictures that had not existed before. Now they did.
Words are things.
He knew that those things we most desire to hold in our hearts are often taken from us while that which we would put away seems often by that very wish to become endowed with unsuspected powers of endurance. He knew how frail is the memory of loved ones. How we close our eyes and speak to them. How we long to hear their voices once again, and how those voices and those memories grow faint and faint until what was flesh and blood is no more than echo and shadow. In the end perhaps not even that.
There’s always been narcotics. But people don’t just up and decide to dope theirselves. By the millions.