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“True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?”
― View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?”
― View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.”
― Almost No Memory
― Almost No Memory
“Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“We must always look at things
from the point of view of eternity,
the college theologians used to insist,
from which, I imagine, we would all
appear to have speed lines trailing behind us
as we rush along the road of the world,
as we rush down the long tunnel of time-
the biker, of course, drunk on the wind,
but also the man reading by a fire...”
― Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
from the point of view of eternity,
the college theologians used to insist,
from which, I imagine, we would all
appear to have speed lines trailing behind us
as we rush along the road of the world,
as we rush down the long tunnel of time-
the biker, of course, drunk on the wind,
but also the man reading by a fire...”
― Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
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