"We love disasters that have nothing to do with us"

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Source : Mark Doty (1993). “My Alexandria: Poems”, p.1, University of Illinois Press

Mark Doty

#Disaster Quotes

“No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.”
“I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.”
“I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.”
“The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.”
“I was the law and order.”
“If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.”
“While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their particular religious leanings and a greater level of personal joy”
“The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.”

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