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“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.”

Ifs May Hands Water Ideals Companion Slips Ducks Fatigue Pipe Drains Rubber Bathtubs Rubber Ducks

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”

Want Water Fingers Ships Slips Deep Thought

Author:Michelle Williams