“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
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“ No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see. ”
― Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
― Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
“Being pretty isn't everything but sometimes being ugly is.”
― Hate List
― Hate List
“It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
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