"The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy."

-- Madeline Miller

#Farewell Quotes #Eyelashes Quotes #Anchors Quotes

“These days I mostly worry ‘bout my bank account/I ain’t backin’ out ‘til I own a bank to brag about.”
“There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.”
“What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my head in terms of imagining what the possibilities are or imagining the role in which they played within a particular culture which I'm fascinated by.”
“If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.”
“Those willing to die will live, and those willing to live will die.”
“War is too important a matter to be left to the military.”
“As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.”
“I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.”

Source : Neal Cassady (1971). “The First Third”, p.47, City Lights Books

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