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Quote Left No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? by Quote Right
Quote Left It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. Quote Right
Quote Left The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that... Quote Right
Quote Left There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly. Quote Right
Quote Left I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. Quote Right
Quote Left I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. Quote Right
Quote Left How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Quote Right
Quote Left There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. Quote Right
Quote Left A schedule defends from chaos and whim. Quote Right
Quote Left How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives Quote Right
Quote Left How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. Quote Right

Book: Shattered Sighs