Aaron > Aaron's Quotes

“As I approach my fortieth birthday without having accomplished any one of the things I intended to accomplish—without ever having achieved the deep creativity that I have worked toward for all this time—I feel that I take a minor, an obscure, a dim position that is not my destiny but that is my fault, as if I had lacked, somewhere along the line, the wit and courage to contain myself competently within the shapes at hand.”
― John Cheever, The Journals of John Cheever

“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
― Mark Twain

“I'm not vicious really. I consider myself kind-hearted. I love my mum”
― Sid Vicious

“Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.”
― John Updike

“So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!”
― Martin Luther

“Poem

Things will go on like this for
Ever. No
Thing shall shatter. No
Tree. No
Blade of grass shall be
There. No
Thing but
Blue rocks shall
Fill the valley where I
Sleep.
Things shall go on like this for
Ever.
Things shall be un
Broken.
No action shall shatter. No
Thing shall escape and no
Body shall shatter ideas and no
Being shall shatter. No
Tree. No
Blade of grass shall
Be present to
Witness the
Incident.

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Everything shall be always thus. No
Thing shall be turned or moved.
Touched.
All shall forever be so.”
― Paul Bowles, Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977

“O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confin'd within the weak list of a country's fashion; we are the makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouth of all find-faults.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Remembrance of things past, I do that all the time.”
― Bob Dylan

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
― Samuel Johnson