“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”
― Cat and Girl Volume I
― Cat and Girl Volume I
“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”
― 2666
― 2666
“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”
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“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
― Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
― Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”
― Every Soul a Star
― Every Soul a Star
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