The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Jon smiled at him. I'm sorry about your wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you how to...
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.