“None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.”
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
“What infuriated many observers was that everything had changed and nothing had changed. That in fact seems to be the nature of English life. It was a revolution which had not changed the nature of governance.”
― Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
― Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
“She’s like a thousand different people right now, all waiting to be, and every time she makes a choice, one of those people goes away forever. Until finally you run out of choices and you are whoever you are.”
― North American Lake Monsters
― North American Lake Monsters
“Strange is the night where black stars rise,
and strange moons circle through the skies,
but stranger still is
lost Carcosa.”
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
and strange moons circle through the skies,
but stranger still is
lost Carcosa.”
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
“The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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