“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.
Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”
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Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”
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“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
“If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”
― Basin and Range
― Basin and Range
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.”
― Trout Fishing in America
I'm not, she said.”
― Trout Fishing in America
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