From Cormac McCarthy: “The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”
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Quote of the day 06/27/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He said that whether a man’s life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
Quote of the day 06/26/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/26/24”
Quote of the day 06/25/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the worldContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/25/24”
Quote of the day 05/04/24
From Kurt Vonnegut: “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Quote of the day 04/27/24
From Dogen: “Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.”
Quote of the day 04/24/24
From William Faulkner: “It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.”
Quote of the day 04/23/24
From William Faulkner: “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
Quote of the day 04/22/24
From William Faulkner: “Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”
Quote of the day 04/21/24
From William Faulkner: “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
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