“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.” LifeHumansLongMomentsRunningObjectsLong TimeLifetimeSupposed To BeHuman LifeStreamsGloriousTidesJustificationFlood Author:James Dickey
“So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.” HumansWarHuman BeingsModernSourceDestructionMilesMiles AwayModern War Author:James Dickey
“Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.” FeelsMindHumansStatesFeelingsHuman BeingsWorstProduceOughtSentencesState Of MindPeculiarEntitledDeprivedDetachment Book:Self-interviews Source: Self-interviews
