"It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Girl Quotes #Dry Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.”
“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”
“The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.”
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
“Life is not lost -dying; life is lost minute -minute, day -dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
“The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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