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Quote by Wendell Berry

“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”

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Wendell Berry, an American novelist born on August 5, 1934, is renowned for his profound descriptions of rural life and his critical views on modern industrial civilization. more

“What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.”

Thinking Way Problem Stones Weight Let Me Metaphor Deeds Release Remembered Gravity Way Of Thinking Single Word Let Me Down

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.”

Source: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

“I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't”

Running Jobs Guy Given Sex Blow Blow Job

Book:Crooked Little Heart: A Novel

Source: Crooked Little Heart: A Novel

“A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.”

Possibility Meetings Metaphor Bridges

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”

Ifs War Values Courage To Love

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.”

Names Process Losing

Book:Heroes and Villains

Source: Heroes and Villains

“If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.”

Ifs Self Lasts Expression Finals Gestures Narcissism Congratulations

Author:Steve Erickson

“The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.”

Proof Loyalty Finest Monstrous Disloyalty

Author:Alain de Botton

“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

Robots

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

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