"Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost."

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Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin

Ben Loory

#Men Quotes #Mind Quotes #Important Quotes

“Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.”

Source : Heinrich Böll (1965). “The clown”, Avon Books
“Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.”

Source : "South Carolina Democratic Chair On How Candidates Can Appeal To Black Voters". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. February 11, 2016.
“Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.”
“The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 38, 1895.
“It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random patterns. I need the joke to hurt more; I want it to sink deeper than the postmodern grin.”
“There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.”
“Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.”
“We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.”

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