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1 " I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. "
― Greg Iles , The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
2 " Emotions are by nature amorphous. When confined to words, our longings and passions, our rebellions and humiliations often seem melodramatic, trivial, or even pathetic. "
3 " Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. "
4 " I educated myself, discovered my gift for language, learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. "
5 " If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago. "
6 " Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand. I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now. "
7 " You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime. "
8 " A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens his liberty, even his life. "
9 " Broad is the gate that leads to destruction, but narrow the way that leads to salvation. . . . "
10 " The female memory defies explanation. "
11 " learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. "
12 " Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand. "
13 " Jung didn’t try to separate good and evil. He knew that both exist in every human heart. He called the propensity to evil the Shadow. And he believed that trying to deny or repress the Shadow is dangerous. Because it can’t be done. He believed you have to recognize your Shadow, come to grips with it, accept it, and integrate it. "
14 " You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool. "
15 " Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose provenance dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. "
16 " A glacier consumes whole forests by inches. "
17 " I guess. "
18 " I don’t say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way. "
19 " Even chitlins smell good to a starving man. "
20 " searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the "
