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A Brief History of Time Quotes
A Brief History of Time
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Shaindel Beers148 ratings, 4.50 average rating, 42 reviews
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“So I try to use old words, inherited from generation
after generation, and try to make them say new things
as if there was never love before us
on this earth, as if every day we’re not drinking
and breathing the molecules of long-dead lovers
who thought they, too, had invented love,
who felt these same tensions and betrayals
and tried to use old words to describe these hopes
and glories of the flesh and mind, and failed
as I have, to say the thing anew.
— Shaindel Beers, closing lines to “I Give You Words,” The Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009)”
― A Brief History of Time
after generation, and try to make them say new things
as if there was never love before us
on this earth, as if every day we’re not drinking
and breathing the molecules of long-dead lovers
who thought they, too, had invented love,
who felt these same tensions and betrayals
and tried to use old words to describe these hopes
and glories of the flesh and mind, and failed
as I have, to say the thing anew.
— Shaindel Beers, closing lines to “I Give You Words,” The Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009)”
― A Brief History of Time
