"The mind is smaller than the eye."

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Wallace Stevens

#Eye Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.”
“In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.”
“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
“I want to continue to expand my game a little more, build my body and work on staying strong so I can play the way I've been playing, and holding my ground the way I've been holding my ground.”
“You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.”
“Sans doute Je peux apprendre Ã coqueriquer: je glougloute. Without doubt I can teach crowing: for I gobble.”
“The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.”
“All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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