Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
From Annie Dillard
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
You can't test courage cautiously.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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