Loon Lake Quotes

“Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake

“He wondered seriously if love wasn't a feeling at all but a simple characterless state of shared isolation. If you were alone with a woman your feelings might change from moment to moment but the circumstance of your shared fate did not change. Maybe that's where the love was, in the combined circumstance.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake

“I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in the stool a painful injury or the mournful witness of the slow death of a parent all this is given to all men as well as the starting awake in the nether hours of the night from such glutinous nightmare that on'e self name relationships nationality place in life all data of specificity wipe out amnesiatically asiatically you don't even know the idea human it is such a low hour of the night and he shares it with all of us.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake

“The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake

“I stopped wondering what she was feeling, what she was thinking. She was happy on the move, alert and at peace, all the inflamed spirit was lifted from her.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake

“one day Warren was admitted for his counseling and the Master threw a cup of cold green tea in his face and that was the lesson of the day.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake

“the old Master becoming at some times demonic in his teaching, a destroyer of ego, of humble ordinary lines of thought, an army of right practice, right understanding overwhelming the frail redoubts and trenches of Warren’s Western mind.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake

“why must I exclude exclude, if everything is now and mind is matter is not everything valid is not meditation the substance of the mind as well as its practice?”
― E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake