“I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.”
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".”
― Writing the Silences
― Writing the Silences
“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”
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“I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.”
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“There can never be an absolutely final translation.”
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