"Books remember all the things you cannot contain."

-- Elizabeth McCracken

#Book Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.”

Source : "Local Color". Book by Truman Capote, 1950.
“When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?”
“Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region... No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.”

Source : "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.
“I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot”
“Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.”
“Men cannot think like dogs.... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead.”
“The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.”
“We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.”

Source : Smith Wigglesworth (2016). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year”, p.123, Destiny Image Publishers

You may also like:

Aimee Bender
Novelist
Allan Gurganus
Novelist
Ann Patchett
Author
Dan Chaon
Writer
Paul Harding
Musician
Rabih Alameddine
Writer
Richard Powers
Novelist
Yiyun Li
Writer
Molly Antopol
Fiction writer