"I walked in a desert. And I cried, â€˜Ah, God, take me from this place!â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™ I cried, â€˜Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™"

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Source : Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

Stephen Crane

#Voice Quotes #Desert Quotes #Horizon Quotes

“Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.”
“This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of Johnâ€™s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.”
“A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.”
“They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.”
“The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.”
“As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?”

Source : "PM" with Eddie Mair, BBC4, January 28, 2008.
“After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.”
“Selfishâ€” a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”

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