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It is possible that one day, when time has wearied remembrance and restored the ruins, wise men will tell us that we were mistaken and that our standpoint was not lofty enough; but they will say it because they will no longer know what we ...more
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Elizabeth Gilbert
“Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
tags: fear

Ian Morgan Cron
“A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. That”
Ian Morgan Cron, Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale

Charles Frazier
“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
Charles Frazier, Varina

Charles Frazier
“Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment’s lost attention, and it’s all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.”
Charles Frazier, Varina

Charles Frazier
“After years of loss and reflection, your old deluded decisions click together like the works of a watch packed tight within its case--many tiny, turning, interlocking wheels....the force of every decision transferring gear to gear, wheel to wheel, each one motivating a larger energy going in no direction but steep downward to darkness at an increasing pitch. And then one morning the world resembles Noah's flood, stretching unrecognizable to the horizon and you wonder how you go there. One thing for sure, it wasn't from a bad throw of dice or runes or an unfavorable turn of cards. Blame falls hard and can't be dodged by the guilty.”
Charles Frazier, Varina
tags: prose

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