To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
I am being so silly because I pity you so much. I pity all of us so much. Life is going to be very tough again, just as soon as this is over. And the most useful thought we can hold when all hell cuts loose again is that we are not members of different…
It occurred to him that Diane [Arbus] hadn’t gotten her tiny white self there and then just accidentally snapped those pictures. They represented a conspiracy between the shims and the photographer. Between dwarf and Diane. The huntress was implicated in those images, and their effect on Bob’s psyche implicated him as well, as if the photographs…
I learned that day that there didn’t seem to be a place for a person describing a snowflake on a mitten. After that I was quiet about what I saw so I wouldn’t make a fool of myself. I learned to be quiet about beauty. from Poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched…
We don’t deepen our reading enjoyment by immediately comprehending every word, sentence, paragraph and reference. We deepen it by grappling with the partly understood, the unfamiliar, the phrase or idea that forces us to think. from the Preface of How to Use the Power of the Printed Word Edited by Billings S. Fuess, Jr (Preface by…
IN AN AGE GONE STALE through the complex of bureaucratic interdependencies, with its tedious labyrinth of technical specializations, each contingent upon the next, and all aimed to converge into a single totality of meaning, it is a refreshing moment indeed when one comes across an area of human endeavour absolutely sufficient unto itself, pure and…
Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of the knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of…
i hope i diewarmedby the life that i triedto live from The Life I Led in the compilation The Women and the Men Poems by Nikki Giovanni Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
He developed a strong hatred of arithmetic. But he loved stories and songs. And he liked particularly the sound of English words, even when they conveyed no meaning at all. Some of the simply filled him with elation. “Periwinkle” was such a word. from Girls at War and other stories by Chinua Achebe Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s)…
I lay down and gave her the iron key. She held it in one hand and me in the other and was equally fond of both. from Lancelot by Walker Percy Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
She has tried so hard to remain true to the past. But the weight of her need must have been too great: her need to be comforted, her need to provide a legacy for a small, fatherless boy. from The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out…