“A moment might be a thousand different things.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny. ”
― Wonder Boys
― Wonder Boys
“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
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“Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
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