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| 108426b | The Great Problematic): Will the ultimate liberation of the erotic from its dialectical relationship with Christianity result in (a) The freeing of the erotic spirit so that man- and womankind will make love and not war? or (b) The trivialization of the erotic by its demotion to yet another technique and need-satisfaction of the organism, toward the end that the demoniac spirit of the autonomous self, disappointed in all other sectors of li.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 699b0a7 | He registered a dizzy 7.6 mmv over Brodmann 32, the area of abstractive activity. Since that time I have learned that a reading over 6 generally means that a person has so abstracted himself from himself and from the world around him, seeing things as theories and himself as a shadow, that he cannot, so to speak, reenter the lovely ordinary world. Such a person, and there are millions, is destined to haunt the human condition like the Flyin.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 4538a9f | As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. | hobbies | Walker Percy | |
| c251e03 | This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. | loneliness | Walker Percy | |
| 2c377fc | What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits. | Walker Percy | ||
| 4899155 | I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him, except in certain sections of the South and West, and certainly not with a book in his hand. | Walker Percy | ||
| d433886 | He's quite a guy. Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out? He said: Queenie, I think I'm going to pass out and before I do, I'm going to give you a piece of advice-God, I thought he was going to die an dknew and was telling me what to do with his book-and he said quite solemnly: Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians-and passed out cold as a mackerel... | Walker Percy | ||
| 6623772 | Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don't like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and takes up with the wrong people. | Walker Percy | ||
| c7891d7 | Where did the terror come from? Not from the violence; violence gives release from terror. Not from Leroy's wrongness, for if he were altogether wrong, an evil man, the matter would be simple and no cause for terror. No, it came from Leroy's goodness, that he is a decent, sweet-natured man who would help you if you needed help, go out of his way and bind up a stranger's wounds. No, the terror comes from the goodness and what lies beneath, s.. | Walker Percy | ||
| e6ccd46 | Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the city with no particular emotion except a mild boredom, unease, exasperation, and dislike especially for, say, Times Square and Brooklyn, and a longing for a Connecticut farmhouse. Later you become an astronaut and wander in space for years. You land on a strange, unexplored (you think) planet. There you find a road sign with an ar.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 37c32f0 | In fact, these terms devised by Franklin are the ones we still use today, along with other neologisms that he coined to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a783c8b | I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head of a hatchet buried in the heartwood of a tree -- it eventually finds the teeth of a whirling saw blade. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 4311527 | I had seen a dawn like this one only twice in my life: once in Vietnam, when a Bouncing Betty had risen from the earth on a night trail and twisted its tentacles of light around my thighs, and years earlier outside of Franklin, Louisiana, when my father and I discovered the body of a labor organizer who had been crucified with sixteen-penny nails, ankle and wrist, against a barn wall. - Sunset Limited | James Lee Burke | ||
| 76d3c98 | Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and I have serious doubts about its presence in my own life, it lies in the acceptance of the human condition and perhaps the knowledge that those who have passed on are still with us, out there in the mist, showing us the way, sometimes uttering a word of caution from the shadows, sometimes visiting us in our sleep, as bright as a candle burnin.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 38145bb | It's a great burden, being one of the good guys. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a7083a8 | One day you'll have a quiet heart. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 2102409 | This is Louisiana, Dave. Guatemala North. Quit pretending it's the United States. Life will make a lot more sense," he said." | James Lee Burke | ||
| d698e41 | Onboard signal to Terra Defense Command . . ." He paused, his mouth opening and closing. "I know, it's a tough one," Commodore Guptill said. "But, face it, sir, you've got to say the words." "Signal: 'It's a trap,' " Admiral Clemons said, grimacing. "Include battle schematics." "That's more like 'It's a Trap!' sir," Guptill said in a gurgly voice. "Like a Horvath is saying it. Imagine you have a great big squid--" "I know," Clemons said. "D.. | John Ringo | ||
| d1b4bdc | Ibsen: "Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life." | Jon Lee Anderson | ||
| 447210a | I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace. | Jon Lee Anderson | ||
| ece7b87 | that's the problem with paradise--nothing attracts a serpent quite like it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b1b2728 | At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount. | humor | Tahir Shah | |
| 56e2ece | Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity. | gossip india life mumbay wisdom | Tahir Shah | |
| cecdc1b | The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near .. | delhi farakka-express ghosts india travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 8262569 | The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail. | study-abroad | Tahir Shah | |
| 72695f0 | Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth. | endurance health quest | Tahir Shah | |
| 3f7d35c | Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. | endurance expedition food hunger | Tahir Shah | |
| 5139495 | Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead. | strategy success treasure zigzag | Tahir Shah | |
| d87f81f | In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense. | body corpse mummy quest | Tahir Shah | |
| 419343b | The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs. | football value | Tahir Shah | |
| c6d91b2 | As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes. | threat | Tahir Shah | |
| 03ccc76 | Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. | explorers hardship | Tahir Shah | |
| 56f3e80 | I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains. | death fear machete threat | Tahir Shah | |
| b4a751e | In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life. | death emotion sadness threat | Tahir Shah | |
| 31428f4 | Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster. | expedition monster power | Tahir Shah | |
| 0559d70 | A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 1f736a5 | To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress. | humanity inspirational-quotes | Tahir Shah | |
| eb7f0d0 | In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell. | Tahir Shah | ||
| b0ad540 | In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 1d1b76d | The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten! | america geography gondwana india myth travel | Tahir Shah | |
| f3691ad | I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it. | india travel writing | Tahir Shah | |
| 271c79c | You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a salesman's success. lie well and you make a fortune every day. your wife purrs like a kitten, and your children ealk tall with pride. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 582abaf | Had his room been facing west he would have noted the sparkling twenty-five-mile vista to the sea which looks almost like the Mediterranean. He would have noted how the streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath. How laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These a.. | Steve Martin | ||
| 5c80cdb | At least Clarissa knows I'm benign. But that is not an adjective one wants to throw around about one's spouse: "This is my husband. He's benign." | Steve Martin |