"I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self."

-- Malcolm Morley

#Past Quotes #Self Quotes #Done Quotes

“Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.”

Source : Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.9, Fordham Univ Press
“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”
“I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.”
“She could not trust herself to hopeâ€”but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.”
“Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth”
“Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.”
“Iâ€™ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.”
“Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.”

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