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“You can't step into the same stream twice because it's always flowing. Everything is.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“...so long as you stay in orbit you will be OK, you will not feel crestfallen, not once. You might miss home, you might feel exhausted, you might feel like you're an animal in a cage, you might get lonely, but you will never, never be crestfallen”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“With money I earned by myself, I gave my daughter a room just so she can read in peace for a day. And I sat there and watched her read, sipping a scotch from the bar. And I cried like a baby. And Lina, my little Lina, she said, 'Mama, why are you crying?' And I said, ' I know how God feels now.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“A thousand sons must have been where he was now and turned back from their horses, wagons, rickshaws, cyclos, buses, schooners, trains, even dusty sandaled feet.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“There is a numb overriding grief that colors life in the audience to a slaughter.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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