Quote From a Book

[JBR]

2nd time I've posted this but feel the need for it again:

"If you tell enough little boys that they should get everything they desire, eventually one of them will have desires so fierce they collapse in on themselves and become a superdense gravity well, drawing everything to themselves."

Yes, but seems to me a question for our times is whether the oligarchic autocrats like the process of everything being 'drawn to themselves'? (Thinking here of a type of person, no specific autocrat in particular. )

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I don't even believe this way, but this dark quote has always haunted me:

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~ Vladimir Nabokov

 

[gruntlabor]

I don't even believe this way, but this dark quote has always haunted me:

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Yes, it was not a healthy, carefree mind that dreamed up that remark

 

[officerripley]

"If you say that it is just business, I cannot guarantee the placidity of my reaction."

~~from The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North

 

[officerripley]

"You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not."

~~from All the Children are Home by Patry Francis

 

[Feelslikefar]

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

"Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt" - Richard Brautigan

 

[horseless carriage]

The phrase "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," is from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem: "In Memoriam A.H.H."
It expresses the idea that the experience of love, even with the pain of loss, is more valuable than never having loved at all. This sentiment suggests that the joy and connection found in love, though temporary, outweigh the suffering that can come with its ending.

Tennyson's articulate observation is my antidote in bereavement.

 

[gruntlabor]

"You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not."

~~from All the Children are Home by Patry Francis

We're born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. --Orson Welles

 

[officerripley]

"...{D}o-gooders. Nowadays you hear people saying that word like it’s a bad thing, and I’ll never in a million years understand that. Why would you make a person out to be wrong for doing good?...If you’re not doing good yourself you’re going to want to take shots at the people who are. It’s easier to make them wrong than to change yourself."

~~from Rolling Toward Clear Skies by Catherine Ryan Hyde

 

[OldFeller]

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

"Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt" - Richard Brautigan

Hey. I forgot I once read a Brautigan novel called Willard and his Bowling Trophies.

Die you bowling trophy thieves! Or something like that is a quote from the book. I don't really remember much about the book.

The story takes place in San Francisco, California in the early 1970s. The title character is a papier-mâché bird that shares the front room of a San Francisco apartment with a collection of bowling trophies that some time earlier were stolen from the home of the Logan brothers.