"The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Dimensions Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Bad Stuff Quotes

“Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing This side of death, Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!”
“I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.”
“Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. Itâ€™s the same for you. Itâ€™s the same for everyone.”
“Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.”
“To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.”
“Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.”
“No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.”

Source : John Trumbull (1962). “Satiric Poems: The Progress of Dulness and M'Fingal”, p.170
“What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.”

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