"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."

-- Grandma Moses

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.”
“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.”
“It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.”
“A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.”
“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.”
“I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.”
“Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether”

Source : E. W. Bullinger “Commentary on Revelation”, Kregel Publications

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