"The cistern contains: The fountain overflows."

-- William Blake

#God Quotes #Fountain Quotes #Overflow Quotes

“I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own.”
“Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.”
“In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.”
“Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.”
“The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.”
“The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.61, U of Minnesota Press
“For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!”
“Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.”

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