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“You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.”

Wells Earth Faces Lying Fall Failure Optimism Come Up Flats Beaten Disgrace Falling Down Smiling Faces

Author:Edmund Vance Cooke

“There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.”

“Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.”

“You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.”

Needs Heart Ends Lying Jesus Loses Who You Are Track Supposed To Be Flats Dirt Basements

Book:Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

Source: Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.”

Giving Book Lying Poetry Lines Cases Written Poet Fine Pages Delight Curious Former Shock Latter Flats Leap Realising Inherent Verses

Author:Edith Sitwell

“We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.”

Feels Lying Stars Walks Walking Filled Tired Beach Sand Flats Bowls Compass

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.”

Lying Policy Dull Flats Falsehood Cunning

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

“A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.”

Lying Hurt Bed Clothes Machines Legs Torture Flats Ache Slides Airline Back Hurts

Author:Richard Quest

“I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.”

Way Writing Ends Whole Lying Theory Pushing Flats Carpet Lumps

Author:Bruce Joel Rubin