Edward Moreta’s Reviews > Census > Status Update

“Every place you go to—when you are there you feel it is so far from anywhere else, in certain moods. In other moods I feel I can just rise up, almost out of my body and be anywhere else, or everywhere else. Do you know, have you felt that simultaneity?”

“Why do we try to honor things by pretending they are anything like other things?”

“I have read some books of philosophy in which the freedom of burdens is explained, that somehow we are all seeking some appropriate burden. Until we find it, we are horribly shackled, can in fact scarcely live”

ending to an incredible couple of paragraphs. very moving.

“It seems to me that there is an excellence in discrimination—in telling one thing apart from another, in being able to break a thing down into parts and see it simultaneously as its parts, and as a whole—and to do this for all things that one sees, to be simultaneously examining both train and branch, to see the pore the limb the leap all together”

“we must be positioned within our deceptions in such a way that we can be afforded the maximum continued delight”

“A thing was given to me—a marvelous morning with snow falling, a lovely wife and child, an afternoon to come out in the landscape—and I allowed it to pass in such a way I can no longer feel it”

“But like might, wealth is just a kind of pressure. Something hollow is left when it fails”

“There is a dream that the place you await does in fact lie in wait for you”