"In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen."

-- R. D. Laing

#Our Society Quotes #Lost Quotes #Ritual Quotes

“If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child”
“An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.”
“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.”
“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
“Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!”
“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
“Collecting has always been in my blood.”
“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”

Source : Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.186, Random House

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