15 quotes found
“To think is to be sick...”
“To love without criticism is to be betrayed.”
“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.”
“there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust”
“I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”
“She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the he...”
“...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called...”
“the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.”
“He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself”
“None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.”
“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.”
“I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ...”
“She said to herself: 'Is not the gown the natural raiment of extremity? What nation, what religion, what ghost, what dream has not worn itinfants, angels, priests, the dead; whyshould not the docto...”
“I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, if I could, I would instigate Meat-Axe Day, and out of the goodness of my heart I would whack you...”
