#m

Now journeys were not simple matters for Grace; nothing is simple if your mind is a fetch-and-carry wanderer from sliced perilous outer world to secret safe inner world; if when night comes your thought creeps out like a furred animal concealed in the dark, to fine, seize, and kill its food and drag it back to the secret house in the secret world, only to discover that the secret world has disappeared or has so enlarged that it's a public nightmare; if then strange beasts walk upside down like flies on the ceiling; crimson wings flap, the curtains fly; a sad man wearing a blue waistcoat with green buttons sits in the centre of the room, crying because he has swallowed the mirror and it hurts and he burps in flashes of glass and light; if crakes move and cry; the world is flipped, unrolled down in the vast marble stair; a stained threadbare carpet; the hollow silver dancing shoes, hunting-horns... ↗

— Janet Frame

#food

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#cosmos #cross #cultural #different #different beliefs

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#administration #bit #blot #bureaucrats #democrat

One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him. ↗

— James Kirkwood

#assured #closed #courtroom #doors #down

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#balance #based #common #common sense #energy

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#always #am #caricature #come #extremely

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#catastrophe #catastrophes #domain #embodied #emergence

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#comes #dance #dumb #i #i am

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. ↗

— Lincoln Kirstein

#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#country #decide #due #go #i