#eli

Billy tried to imagine the birth of Cyril's wife's baby. It would happen in grim lights violently. A dripping thing trying to clutch to its hole. Dredged up and beaten. Blood and drool and womb mud. How cute, this neon shrieker made to plunge upward, odd-headed blob, this marginal electric glow-thing. Dressed and powdered now. Engineered to abstract design. Cling, suck and cry. Follow with the eye. Gloom and drought of unprotected sleep. Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm? Return, return to negative unity. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#delillo-ratner-s-star #don-delillo #ratner-s-star #ratners-star #design

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. ↗

— John Bolton

#conservative #freedom #government #i #i believe

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#advances #deliberately #distant #haste #himself

As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read. ↗

— Todd Burpo

#believe #book #dad #exaggerated #forever

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw. ↗

— Johan Cruijff

#cross #draw #end #enter #i

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#feeling #i #i love #love #sensuality

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

#believe #bought #charged #committee #constitution

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #both #decided #desirable #experience

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#brothers #care #cats #circus #deliberately

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. ↗

— Henry Miller

#according #act #beliefs #distinguishes #few