"What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?"

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Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.90, Open Road Media

Fritz Leiber

#Upset Quotes #Might Quotes #Remember Quotes

“In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.”
“Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse”
“It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.”
“My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.”
“I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.”
“To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.”
“We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.”
“Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there...”

Source : Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.8, Library of America

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