"Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial."

-- Thomas Bernhard

#Ideas Quotes #Als Quotes #Fins Quotes

“Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.”

Source : Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.”
“Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.”
“You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about what you want.”
“I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.”
“In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.”
“Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.”
“So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.”

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