Benjamin Taylor > Quotes

“There are choices you make not by planning but (as you make your shadow) by being where you are”
― Benjamin Taylor, Tales Out of School

“On a certain afternoon of July, at the tawniest hour, on Galvez Island, the earth -- the tilting spinning earth -- was unearthly. There is no accounting for this adequacy, this splendor that overtakes you. You lack neither flour nor oil while the famine lasts. On a certain afternoon, at a certain hour, the earth is earth no longer, but a fragment of eternity. And you, greenhorn jest of time, are a fragment of eternity too.”
― Benjamin Taylor, Tales Out of School