"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."

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Source : John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media

John Clellon Holmes

#Path Quotes #Ants Quotes #Glaciers Quotes

“I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.”
“Faith is the collateral of heaven. It is what you use to trade with in heaven.”
“Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.”
“I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.”
“In a friend you find a second self.”
“Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.”
“We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?”
“If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).”

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