David Ohle Quotes

#1. I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going.

David Ohle

#2. He started low and remained there, sure that safety embraced felicity on a mattress of obscurity. He knew that vertical activity invited dazzling exposure, and that to seek is to be sucked. He recognized loneliness as the mother of virtues and sat in her lap whenever he could.

David Ohle

#3. That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

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#4. You sit in your chair and ignore it, Moldenke. You remain. Evolution continues, Moldenke remains. You remind me of pi, Moldenke -- ever constant. Do something! Sitting there, gassing the paper weeks away, caring not.

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#5. What is my sin, Cock? Have I eaten innocent tissue, innocent muscle too often? I always killed them, in the old days, before I ate them. Now I'm afraid I wouldn't hesitate to eat them alive.

David Ohle