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She knew through her love his whole soul and in it she found what she wanted

There was only one being in the world who was able to concentrate for him the whole world and the meaning of life

He had heard that women often fell in love with unattractive and quite ordinary men, but he did not believe it because he judged hybhinself and he could fall in love only with beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.

"Managing two families wasn't easy, but bin Laden wasn't discouraged. He developed a theory of multiple marriages. 'One is okay, like walking. Two is like riding a bicycle: it's fast but a little unstable. Three is a tricycle, stable but slow. And when we come to four, ah! This is the ideal. Now you can pass everyone"

And while it is rare to attend a poetry festival of a conference and see poets (established and emerging, white and black, academic and non academic) being treated as equals, consequently it is even rarer to discover literary editors and publishers open to "all" levels of class intelligence. The first task of activism of any perform-a-formist is the removal of all one-dimensional judges to the craft

Finally one of us is properly positioned to run. By "us" I mean Black, by "positioned" I mean White and by "run" I mean Race and its varied speeds of darkness

"In illogical situations, one lings to an idea that seems at all logical, even if it is only a scrim, translucent and flimsy, that shields the lack of serious planning behind it

"The townspeople thrived from impermanent relationships which were in their own way pure: the exchange of money for goods, a pleasant farewell, the assurance that neither party would see the other again. After all, what are most relationships in life but exactly this, though stretched flabbily over years and generations.

This book is all about arrogance and I think I'm going to love it

This book is my catcher in the rye. So many wonderful schemes

To be an unusual young man means for the most part to get a difficult mastery over the usual

"It's called a gui-tar. It's the instrument of choice for playing 'the blues', which is a form of American music that chronicles the pain caused by bad decision making

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth

“That everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
This book is by turns haunting and hilarious, devote a few hours a day to read it

Just finished At Swim-Two-Birds: "Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind"

“To rule forever, it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People,-- to create thus a Distinction betwixt 'em,-- 'tis the first stroke.- All else will follow as if predestin'd unto War and Devastation

Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power, — who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been.

They drank a bottle and opened another. They were so in love with the world, and disappointed in every aspect of it, that drinking another bottle while they sat at the kitchen table was the most obvious way they could honor it all

“There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection.”

"Dixon remembers the tale Emerson lov'd to tell, of Galileo before the cardinals, creaking to his feet after being forc'd to recant, muttering "Nonetheless, it moves." Watch, patiently as before the Minute-Hand of a Clock, become still enough and 'twould all begin to move... This, Dixon understands,is what Galileo was risking so much for, this153 majestick Dawn Heresy

"Twas not too many years before the War,- what we were doing was out in that Country together was brave, scientifick beyond my understanding, and ultimately meaningless

"There was nothing like facing facts. They blew into the face hard, like a stiff, exhilarating, decidedly gritty breeze, which brought sanity with it, even though sanity might be a bit unwelcome"

At first I thought this series was getting dragged down a bit by the melancholy and realism, but with the spectre of war looming I'm starting to relish the change