J. Rufus Fears famous quotes

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The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
-- J. Rufus Fears

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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.
The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

J. Rufus Fears famous quotes

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