#his

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#bought #brown #buried #down #down the road

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#metaphysical #philosophy #metaphysics

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. ↗

— George W. Bush

#propaganda

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. ↗

— Saigyō

#buddhism

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. ↗

— George Steiner

#ecstasy #whisper #grammar

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#comes #constantly #creatures #existent #finding

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#historical-fiction

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#lem #planet #science #dreams

We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

#did #frustrated #his way #some #way

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#harder #history #hopeless #i #just