Quotes and Words
"crazy jay blue)" e. e. cummings p. 1958
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"The secret of happiness is freedom. And the secret of freedom, courage." - Thucydides
Grapes of Wrath "Chapter 21" - John Steinbeck
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." - Richard Feynman
“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.” - e.e. cummings
"I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives." - Charles Dickens
"Death is not… It's the absence of presence, nothing more … the endless time of never coming back … a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound…" - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
“On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.” - Douglas Adams
"Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there." - Gene Roddenberry
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." - William Shakespeare
"The secret to a long life lies in how acutely you perceive time" - Cecil Palmer
“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.” - Jeannette Winterson
"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning." - Vincent van Gogh
"The past beats inside me like a second heart. These fragments I have shored against my ruins." - John Banville
"there is a holiness
in this purging
there is an art
in destroying."
– j. p. berame
"Sometimes, I think you forget. I am not God. I do not forgive.” - Venetta Octavia
The utter silence of the untranslated stars.” - e.e cummings
“You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming.” - e.e cummings,
"she strings the constellations round the hollow of her neck and / exudes the ash of supernovae with every breath” - k.k
“i would like to lay down in a meadow of stories with you, writing poetry into lazy sun swept afternoons that stretch into eternities. dreaming only in saltwater skies, pastel paint feathered across the canvas of imagination as you sing us into legends, sing kingdoms down to our feet. nothing hurts anymore. the ache is but an old nightmare worn threadbare, tucked away in a forgotten corner. we are young gods at the precipice of unbecoming, laughing as we unravel.” - a.c
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“[I am healing by mistake.] Rome is also built on ruins.” - Eliza Griswold
"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Sarah Williams