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We find ourselves thinking: “Is this all there is?” because we forget that everything is transitory, and no one single instance can summarize the whole. There is nowhere to “arrive” to. The only thing you’re rushing toward is death.
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“It’s not food. It’s an industrially produced edible substance.”
― Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop?
― Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop?
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
― ’Salem’s Lot
― ’Salem’s Lot
“You can’t stop a country from happening, Good Stab.” “But we were already a nation,” he said up to me. “We didn’t ask you to come.”
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
― The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
― The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
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