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“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”
Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books
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“Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost crying with jubilation – not just about the wood, but because I could live competently some of the time, and because that day I liked myself.”
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“Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.”
Source : Deborah Grey (2004). “Never retreat, never explain, never apologize: my life, my politics”
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“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”
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“The world is changing and there are new opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are stronger and more experienced.”
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“No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.”
Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”
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“How can I study from below, that which is above?”
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“Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,”
