"You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place."

-- Alexandra Fuller

#War Quotes #Jumping Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
“Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 05, 2013
“J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.”
“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
“One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile Coiled and gleaming to the end of space And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.”
“Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.”

Source : "Matthea Harvey, author of 'Modern Life'". Interview with Wendy Vardaman, www.versewisconsin.org.
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.”

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