Quotes - Robert Burrows (Walnut Creek, CA) Showing 1-30 of 68

#1

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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#2

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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#3

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

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#4

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

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#5

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#6

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

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#7

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

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#8

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

tags: conversation

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#9

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

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#10

“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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#11

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#12

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

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#13

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

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#14

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

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#15

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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#16

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

tags: literature

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#17

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

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#18

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

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#19

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#20

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

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#21

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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#22

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility

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#23

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

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#24

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#25

“Keep on truckin'”
― R. Crumb

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#26

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society

1104 likes

#27

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

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