#after

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#artist #being #dad #different #done

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? ↗

— Noel Coward

#any #exasperating #guarantee #less #reliable

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#around #being #classic #continue #dove

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder. ↗

— Webb Simpson

#become #been #big #complacent #easy

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that. ↗

— Layne Staley

#andrew #changed #death #even #few

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease. ↗

— Betty Hill

#after #also #barney #had #i

At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freaks like her. ↗

— Karen Mahoney

#age

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other. ↗

— Eric San

#always #call #cut #each #generation

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#arena #arenas #because #fact #falsity