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“Anyway...the problem is that it wasn't long before people realized that independence wasn't everything. Power is never innocent - who said that, Shakespeare? - so why do we go on believing that we can be governed by good people? Those who want power badly enough to seize it are those with monstrous egos, overweening ambitions, they are all potential tyrants. If not, they wouldn't seek out the role...”
― The Art of Losing
― The Art of Losing
“For Alice, part of the strangeness of this new Chicago family was that they conducted a kind of love that seemed voluminous; it required talking over one another and living on top of one another, and it was a force that appeared to include people both present and absent, alive and dead.”
― Hello Beautiful
― Hello Beautiful
“As I came to understand, in retrospect, the magnetic quality that these works held for me, I came to understand that what motivated these men was not Earthly prizes or the respect of colleagues, but that they put their souls and minds on something and reached the extraordinary place where the mind could no longer produce data of the type that they wanted, and they were in the territory of inspiration, where their intuitions accelerated and they knew that there was something more than the realm of time and space and matter, something more than physical life.”
― The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide
― The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide
“The body always wants to live. The spirit is less certain, more susceptible to the heart.”
― Fellowship Point
― Fellowship Point
“Why did we stop running and playing? We loved it so much. Who made the rule that the child’s pleasure in the body must come to an end? I blame the Puritans!”
― Fellowship Point
― Fellowship Point
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