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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #3
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”
    C.S. Lewis, On the Incarnation

  • #4
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great
    that you can see it in the slow movement of
    the hands of a clock.

    people so tired
    mutilated
    either by love or no love.

    people just are not good to each other
    one on one.

    the rich are not good to the rich
    the poor are not good to the poor.

    we are afraid.

    our educational system tells us
    that we can all be
    big-ass winners.

    it hasn't told us
    about the gutters
    or the suicides.

    or the terror of one person
    aching in one place
    alone

    untouched
    unspoken to

    watering a plant.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #6
    Charles Bukowski
    “the writing of some
    men
    is like a vast bridge
    that carries you
    over
    the many things
    that claw and tear.

    The Wine of Forever”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “the history of melancholia
    includes all of us.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “when the phone rings
    I too would like to hear words
    that might ease
    some of this.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “people are not good to each other.
    perhaps if they were
    our deaths would not be so sad.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “now it’s computers and more computers
    and soon everybody will have one,
    3-year-olds will have computers
    and everybody will know everything
    about everybody else
    long before they meet them.
    nobody will want to meet anybody
    else ever again
    and everybody will be
    a recluse
    like I am now.”
    Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

  • #11
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #12
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #13
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #14
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #15
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #16
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #17
    Cormac McCarthy
    “What's the bravest thing you ever did?
    He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #18
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #19
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #20
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #21
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #24
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #25
    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #26
    John Steinbeck
    “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
    John Steinbeck, شرق بهشت

  • #27
    John Steinbeck
    “People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #28
    John Steinbeck
    “We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden



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