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Wherefrom Quotes

He had gone to church and brought back this little flame and had nowhere to put it on the dark damp walls of the apartment, so it had flickered and gone out. and he realised that he wouldn't always be able to produce this flame Picture Quote #1

I grew up in the 1930's Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow Picture Quote #1

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? Picture Quote #1

The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully Picture Quote #1

In the same way that certain sections of the city were mortal battlegrounds, some parts of the calendar were always more warlike than others, and during the days between Christmas and the new year all elements seemed to conspire to subdue the soul. Fire, rain, sickness, cold, and death were everywhere spread through the dark as in a painting of hell. People struggled until exhaustion, giving everything they had, and the days were packed with trials and mysteries Picture Quote #1

You'll join me sooner than you know in a place with... no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky Picture Quote #1

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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation Picture Quote #1

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves Picture Quote #1

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time Picture Quote #1

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination Picture Quote #1

Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it Picture Quote #1

Sometimes love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing and then it is very bitter. It is bitter because somewhere within you the perfect standard still lives, the pure expectation against which failure and betrayal are contrasted like the dark shadows on a moonlit road Picture Quote #1

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I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition Picture Quote #1

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding Picture Quote #1

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play Picture Quote #1

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists Picture Quote #1

They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes, reedy snow-filled steppes, and winter gods who played with storms and stars Picture Quote #1

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be Picture Quote #1

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But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea Picture Quote #1

One of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful Picture Quote #1

Those events which have passed, and which are the foundations of our lives, must be somewhere, he thought. They must be recapturable, even if only in a perfect world. How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth Picture Quote #1

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee Picture Quote #1

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities Picture Quote #1

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives Picture Quote #1

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I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them Picture Quote #1

The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too Picture Quote #1

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you Picture Quote #1

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart Picture Quote #1

It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere Picture Quote #1

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be present where no overt act of worship has taken place Picture Quote #1

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He had gone to church and brought back this little flame and had nowhere to put it on the dark damp walls of the apartment, so it had flickered and gone out. and he realised that he wouldn't always be able to produce this flame (Wherefrom Quotes) I grew up in the 1930's Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow (Wherefrom Quotes) Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? (Wherefrom Quotes) The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully (Wherefrom Quotes) In the same way that certain sections of the city were mortal battlegrounds, some parts of the calendar were always more warlike than others, and during the days between Christmas and the new year all elements seemed to conspire to subdue the soul. Fire, rain, sickness, cold, and death were everywhere spread through the dark as in a painting of hell. People struggled until exhaustion, giving everything they had, and the days were packed with trials and mysteries (Wherefrom Quotes) You'll join me sooner than you know in a place with... no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky (Wherefrom Quotes) When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation (Wherefrom Quotes) Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves (Wherefrom Quotes) I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time (Wherefrom Quotes) The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination (Wherefrom Quotes) Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it (Wherefrom Quotes) Sometimes love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing and then it is very bitter. It is bitter because somewhere within you the perfect standard still lives, the pure expectation against which failure and betrayal are contrasted like the dark shadows on a moonlit road (Wherefrom Quotes) I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition (Wherefrom Quotes) The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding (Wherefrom Quotes) Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play (Wherefrom Quotes) Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists (Wherefrom Quotes) They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes, reedy snow-filled steppes, and winter gods who played with storms and stars (Wherefrom Quotes) I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be (Wherefrom Quotes) But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea (Wherefrom Quotes) One of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful (Wherefrom Quotes) Those events which have passed, and which are the foundations of our lives, must be somewhere, he thought. They must be recapturable, even if only in a perfect world. How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth (Wherefrom Quotes) TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee (Wherefrom Quotes) Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities (Wherefrom Quotes) Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives (Wherefrom Quotes) I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them (Wherefrom Quotes) The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too (Wherefrom Quotes) It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you (Wherefrom Quotes) Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart (Wherefrom Quotes) It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere (Wherefrom Quotes) The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be present where no overt act of worship has taken place (Wherefrom Quotes)

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