"Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came."

-- Raymond Carver

#Philosophy Quotes #Class Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.”
“Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer”
“Misery alternates with euphoria.”

Source : Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.104, Harper Collins
“I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.”
“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.”
“No human creature can give orders to love.”
“It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can't marry the one they love and I can. That makes no sense”
“We are a blue planet and an ocean world.”

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