Bryant A. Loney's Blog: BryantLoney.tumblr.com, page 102
March 1, 2015
"We all have souls of different ages."
“We all have souls of different ages.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned.
February 28, 2015
"Good writing is about telling the truth. But telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be..."
“Good writing is about telling the truth. But telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be about as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.”
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird.
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird.
February 27, 2015
"Looking inside myself, I found a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of..."
“Looking inside myself, I found a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds.”
- C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy.
- C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy.
February 23, 2015
"We write to exert power over something we can never control—the past."
“We write to exert power over something we can never control—the past.”
- Nellie Hermann.
- Nellie Hermann.
February 22, 2015
Why Seagulls Laugh
The man was prideful, and he knew no fault in himself. Yet he was cunning enough to understand this was unacceptable to others; when
they were upset with him, the man gave sweeping apologies to cover his alleged
wrongdoings. His family caught on within a few years, so they left him in his
mansion by the sea, and he wept.
He then sailed in a boat he crafted on his own, leaving the sun
behind him and focusing his sights eastward until a storm hit him, and his
ramshackle dingy crashed on an uninhabite...
