"But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do"

-- Jack Kerouac

#Wind Quotes #Sea Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.”
“I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.”
“High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.”

Source : James Martineau (1858). “Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses”, p.306
“The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.”
“A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.”
“I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.”
“I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.”
“We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because these things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalismâ€¦ We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastropheâ€“and would benefit the vast majorityâ€“are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.”

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