John Cuthbert > John's Quotes

“For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
― James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

“Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.”
― James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

“the hours elapsed would in part be voided by
the crossing, always westerly, of time zones.
From Saskatchewan we'd get to Mongolia, we
figured, having lost only two or three hours
riding the Arctic Circle. We would oppose
turning of the planet and refuse the setting of
the sun.”
― Dave Eggers

“We had traveled 4200 miles or whatever and
thus were obligated to create something. We
had to take the available materials and make
something worthy.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“Growing up I thought all countries look, were
required to look, completely different―Congo
was all jungle, robust and wet and green,
Germany was all black forests, Russia was
white, all of it Siberian. But every country now
seemed to offer a little of every other country,
and every given landscape, I finally realized,
existed somewhere in the U.S.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“Pages clarify our yearnings. They keep an eye on our goals. They may provoke us, coax us, comfort us, even cajole us, as well as prioritize and synchronize the day at hand. If we are drifting, the pages will point that out. They will point the way True North. Each morning, as we face the page, we meet ourselves”
― Julia Cameron, The Miracle of Morning Pages: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Most Important Artist's Way Tool