"The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?"

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Source : Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books

Sybille Bedford

#Errors Quotes #Society Quotes #Compass Quotes

“If you're single, use this time now to make the biggest impact you can for God's Kingdom. Enjoy how God uses you as a single adult to show His love to others because you are in a unique place to minister to others where married adults could not!”
“Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.”
“Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred”
“It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.”
“It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.”
“Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Don't you think it's depressing?”
“We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.”
“Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.”

Source : TheWapshot Chronicle ch. 36 (1957)

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