"The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Moments Quotes

“If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.”
“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.”
“Yep, ouch. He and apologies didnâ€™t get along.”
“A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.73, Penguin
“When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you”
“There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.”

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