“Afraid to live, too cowardly to die.”
― Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
― Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.”
― Four Quartets
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.”
― Four Quartets
“I come from Divisadero Street. Divisadero, from the Spanish word for ‘division,’ the street that at one time was the dividing line between San Francisco and the fields of the Presidio. Or it might be derived from the word divisar, meaning ‘to gaze at something from a distance.’ (There is a ‘height’ nearby called El Divisadero.) Thus a point from which you can look far into the distance”
― Divisadero
― Divisadero
“We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.”
― Laughable Loves
― Laughable Loves
“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― Get Rich or Get Lucky
― Get Rich or Get Lucky
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