Birdwhistell And Perry Quotes

#1. Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. We resist the gospel because we fear all powers that effect change in us, even as we live in a society that constantly champions progress and development.

R. R. Reno

#3. We really know time, says Heidegger, because we know we are going to die. Without this passionate realization of our mortality, time would be simply a movement of the clock that we watch passively, calculating its advance - a movement devoid of human meaning.

William Barrett

#4. You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#5. Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#6. Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.

Anna Godbersen

#7. As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Chaim Potok