“Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.” MenGivingFeelsLooksNamesKnowingColdJewStrangerWho We AreAgonyAbstraction Author:Arthur Miller
“Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.” WritingFirstsSaidBigsWaterKnowingColdReaderOkayConfusedLive BySwimSloppy Author:Anne Lamott
“Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?” TryingEndsWaitingBoysKnowingClearColdSitting Book:The Complete Poems Source: The Complete Poems
“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .” WorldNeedsMindHeartHas BeensStillsShowsBodyTurnsPassionKnownKnowingFoolColdKingsLongingNew WorldStubbornSweetnessAcheExileBeggarRisenTreasonWild Passion Author:R. S. Thomas
“I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.” Has BeensEndsLastsGrowsKnownKnowingColdWineDrunkTill The End Book:Beyond the Age of Innocence Source: Beyond the Age of Innocence
“I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?” KnowsChildrenMadeWarMomentsDiesDecisionKnowingWallColdMajorsDown AndNuclearMilesAliensTargetCold WarBerlinAnnihilationMiles AwayDecisions MadeBerlin Wall Author:Charles Stross
“Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.” IfsPleasureKnowingColdCapacityCuriosityDull Author:John Ruskin