"Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life."

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Source : "The portable Emerson".

Mark Van Doren

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Men Quotes

“Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.”
“And there I was with the stars hanging above my house like live wiresand the night sky the color of stockings.I stuck out my tongue to taste the skybut could not taste.I inhaled deeplybut could not smell.I used to look to the sky for comfortand now there was nothing, not even a seam,and I looked down and saw that it did not even reach the ground.And my only company was the satellites counting their sleep”

Source : "A Hummock in the Malookas (venus waning/apollo waxing his car)". Book by Matthew Rohrer, 1995.
“Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.”
“One of these days you're going to a mansion that isn't going to cost you anything!-No upkeep, no expense, absolutely nothing except what it's already cost Jesus!-And it will be commensurate with your works on Earth, what you already paid for it down here.”
“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
“Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance”
“It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

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