"It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is."

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Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.20, Stanford University Press

Robinson Jeffers

#Beautiful Quotes #Earth Quotes #Littles Quotes

“A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.”
“I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.”
“Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.”
“There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.”
“The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.”
“Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem.”

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“When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.”
“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names â€¦Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”

Source : "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.

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