"But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue. ...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever."

-- Jenny Downham

#Fall Quotes #Eye Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.”

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.13, Broadway Books
“If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.”
“Memories are like water.”
“Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
“But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is an absolute-and they equate that absolute with their mythic god, and they stuff this god with all the characteristics that promote their own egoic inclinations, starting with the fact that if you don't believe in this particular god, you fry in hell forever, which is not exactly a generous view of Spirit.”
“I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.”
“A good name is better than precious ointment.”
“I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.”

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