“What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.” NeedsLooksMadeEyePastSongGirlGoneTendernessPuzzlesNew LifeAmnestyNew SongsRansomBracketsGet A Girl Book:Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Source: Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
“Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?” IfsLooksPersonsLongEyePastPlanetsPleaseFingersAffairLionsOwl Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.” PeopleThinkingLooksMayUseLightEyeDiesClassRacismObligationGuiltyDamnAshamedLive ByBelongingApologyShirk Book:The Moviegoer Source: The Moviegoer
