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2001-07-09 :: 10:13 p.m. :: quotes i have a rather curious penchant for archiving quotes. it began in high school, as i enjoyed teasing my mom by writing down things she said and then quoting them back to her out of context. eventually, our refrigerator was covered in them (i still have them somewhere, maybe someday i'll get around to posting a few here). then in college, i started the 'quote wall' which served the same purpose, and quickly filled up, often making for some interesting dinner conversation! i also started a journal that was solely for writing down quotes of a different nature: literary, insightful, etc. in any case, the saga continues online, as humorous and serious are mixed below. 7/6/01 :: "So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty." :: Jack Kerouac, On The Road. 7/7/01 :: "I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But - and this is the point - who gets excited by a mere penny? If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded by the sight of a muskrat kit paddling from its den, will you count that sight a chip of copper only, and go your rueful way? It is dire poverty when a man is so malnourished and fatugued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get." :: Annie Dillard, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
7/8/01 :: "don't keep dwelling on the past when it doesn't have what you need to move into the future" :: pastor at U District Vineyard church 7/9/01 :: "who are you? how many selves have you? and which of those selves do you want to be?" :: D.H. Lawrence, Studies of Classical American Literature 7/10/01 :: "He who travels far will often see things far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, he is often accused of lying, for the obdurate people will not believe what they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I believe, will give little credence to my song." :: Hermann Hesse, 'The Journey to the East' 7/11/01 :: "Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another." :: Herman Hesse, 'The Journey to the East' 7/16/01 :: "the doors of perception are open for business" :: Homer Simpson, the hippie episode 8/7/01 :: "one lumpy feather and three squashed" :: my mother, in regards to her pillows "no, it is not inconvenient that your feet are on my head" :: brian, the everlasting stoic 8/16/01 :: "yes, as far as my experience goes, crunching noises are bad." |