Sherry Gallagher > Sherry's Quotes

“The first step toward finding God--who is truth--is to discover the truth about myself; and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error”
― Thomas Merton, The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals – A Spiritual Autobiography of Monastic Wisdom and Global Faith

“We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the 'hakujin' believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life--you must see that these are distinct paths we are travelling, Hatsue, the 'hakujin' and we Japanese" (p. 176).”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

“A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly”
― Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”
― Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

“Without the withering song,
the reduce of the rabbit and glide of the hawk,
the people will never wake up and realise
that they're no longer free'
- Shers Gallagher 2024”
― Sherry Marie Gallagher