I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.
If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
I can write pretty much anywhere.
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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