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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. James Baldwin
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
James Baldwin
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. John Galsworthy
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
Feeling that he must run and that he will take root forever and stand, does both at once, and neither, grows blind, and then sees everything, steps and becomes a man of stars instead. James Dickey
Feeling that he must run and that he will take root forever and stand, does both at once, and neither, grows blind, and then sees everything, steps and becomes a man of stars instead.
James Dickey
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be. André Malraux Man’s Fate
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
André Malraux Man’s Fate
I stand on the terrible threshold, and I see The end and the beginning in each other’s arms. Stanley Kunitz “Open The Gates”
I stand on the terrible threshold, and I see The end and the beginning in each other’s arms.
Stanley Kunitz “Open The Gates”
All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all, does not last forever, does it? There is summer, too, and spring, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always. Truman Capote
All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all, does not last forever, does it? There is summer, too, and spring, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always.
Truman Capote
I was twenty when I went in, thirty-one when I come out. You don’t count months and years — you don’t do time that way. You gotta forget time; you gotta not give a fuck if you live or die. You gotta get to where nothin’ means nothin’. James Caan in Thief Screenplay by Michael Mann
I was twenty when I went in, thirty-one when I come out. You don’t count months and years — you don’t do time that way. You gotta forget time; you gotta not give a fuck if you live or die. You gotta get to where nothin’ means nothin’.
James Caan in Thief Screenplay by Michael Mann
It takes a long time to understand nothing. Edward Dahlberg
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Edward Dahlberg
Apart from the known and unknown, what else is there? Harold Pinter
Apart from the known and unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. “They all eat one another!” he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, and said, “They all feed one another,” and called it good. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. “They all eat one another!” he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, and said, “They all feed one another,” and called it good.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Always pee before a long car trip. Martin Mull
Always pee before a long car trip.
Martin Mull
Until God has taken possession of him, no human being can have faith, but only simple belief; and it hardly matters whether or not he has such a belief, because he will arrive at faith equally well through disbelief. Simone Weil
Until God has taken possession of him, no human being can have faith, but only simple belief; and it hardly matters whether or not he has such a belief, because he will arrive at faith equally well through disbelief.
Simone Weil
None of us has lived up to the teachings of Christ. Eleanor Roosevelt
None of us has lived up to the teachings of Christ.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Would you make obeisance to your guru, O my heart? He is there at every step, on all sides of the path, for numberless are your gurus. To how many of them would you make your obeisance? The welcome offered to you is your guru, the agony inflicted on you is your guru. Every wrench at the heartstrings that makes the tears to flow is your guru. Bauls verse
Would you make obeisance to your guru, O my heart? He is there at every step, on all sides of the path, for numberless are your gurus. To how many of them would you make your obeisance? The welcome offered to you is your guru, the agony inflicted on you is your guru. Every wrench at the heartstrings that makes the tears to flow is your guru.
Bauls verse
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. Kabir
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Kabir
There is no such way to attain to a greater measure of grace as for a man to live up to the little grace he has. Phillips Brooks
There is no such way to attain to a greater measure of grace as for a man to live up to the little grace he has.
Phillips Brooks
By the time I was three, I was spending every waking moment at the keyboard, standing, placing my hands on the keyboard, and pushing notes. And I would choose very carefully what tones I would play because I knew that when I would play a note I would become that note. Lorin Hollander
By the time I was three, I was spending every waking moment at the keyboard, standing, placing my hands on the keyboard, and pushing notes. And I would choose very carefully what tones I would play because I knew that when I would play a note I would become that note.
Lorin Hollander
Usually I like your choice of cover photographs. But I am really mystified by Issue 193. Why does the backside of a zebra merit the cover?
Then I read Sunbeams. Is no one editing these quotations? Why mix something as hopelessly mundane as the quotation by Martin Mull — “Always pee before a long car trip” — with the quotation by Kabir and the Bauls verse? Truly, life is composed of the banal and the sublime; but must I find them side by side in The Sun?