Hole in the Sky Quotes

“I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.”
― William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

“We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.”
― William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated. There will never be another setup like the one in which we thrived. Ruin it and we will have lost ourselves, and that is craziness.”
― William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.”
― William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

“They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.”
― William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky: A Memoir