"Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?"

-- James Clavell

#Stars Quotes #Taken Quotes #Men Quotes

“I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.”
“The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”
“He that has patience may compass anything.”
“The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.”

Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks
“I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.”
“The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.”
“What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.”

Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”
“The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.”

Source : Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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