(15 quotes found)
“So your flesh shall be part of mineAnd part of mine be yours.Brother and sister we shall beWhose unity endures.Always the sister doll will cry,Made in these careful ways,Cry on and on, Come back to me,Come back, in a few days.”
William Empson
“. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.”
“A humanist, as I understand the term, says, "This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it."”
“It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.The more things happen to you the more you can'tTell or remember even what they were.”
“It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
“The "News," the conferences that leer,the creeping fog, the civil traps.These are what force you into fear.”
“. . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be felt deeply, and is the central feeling of tragedy. And anything of value must accept this because it must not prostitute itself; its strength is to be prepared to waste itself, if it does not get the opportunity.”
“The heart of standing is you cannot fly.”
“Seven types of ambiguity.”
“Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.”
