"I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space."

-- Gerald Kersh

#Dog Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Stars Quotes

“Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.”
“My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?”
“Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress”
“If you're wasting time, you're wasting money... and that's just sick.”
“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”
“When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.”
“... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.26, Penguin
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.”

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