The price I paid for that lesson has left my heart an almost empty purse, with just two coins or three clinking at the bottom.
It’s a war. Mistake a war for an adventure, you won’t live long.
Worstead exists.
Sometimes life seemed to be a machine designed to crush dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumpled cars into compact cubes.
Maybe he had endured tragedies and pain, numerous injustices and insults. She didn’t give a damn. Join the club; that was the human condition. What mattered wasn’t what they did to you, but whether you rose above the level of the users and tormentors – or whether you became one of them and did so with dark glee.
Friendship is an illusion... Like love and compassion!
If someone had killed Hamlet in the first act, a lot more people would’ve been alive at the end.
Libraries are packed with biographies of movie stars and politicians, most of them not capable of as much meaningful self-analysis as you’d get from a toad. We don’t need to know more about celebrities’ lives, Obadiah. What might help us, what might even save us, is knowing more about the lives of real people who’ve never made it even medium but who know where they came from and why.
Darkness was conducive to contemplation.
Treat the study as if we’re in a Daphne du Maurier novel, as if this house is an alternate-universe version of Manderley, and I am keeping either the murdered and mummified corpse of Rebecca or Mrs. Danvers – or both! – behind that locked door, to spare myself from a long prison sentence.
Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn’t believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.
We Ceaselessly examine the bits of wreckage in the surf, as though we can put the past back together again, but that’s just torturing ourselves.
How is always less important than why.
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
I think you look adorable. Get real, odd one. I look like a goth Gidget.
These days, many of the younger generation lacked a serious work ethic and, having been hooked on tech and social media most of their lives, had the attention span of a Chihuahua with ADHD.
Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself.
The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion.
I’m black, blind, seriously smart, and sensitive. No age would be easy for me. At least the culture had culture then, it had style.
This country is ours. America is over. Arcadia is rising in its place.