"The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone."

-- Mark Doty

#Distance Quotes #Reality Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.”
“I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.”
“You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.”
“At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this:Â â€˜Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.â€™”
“Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.”
“After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”
“I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.”
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.66, Open Road Media

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