Diffracted Quotes

#1. [B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?

Thomas Boswell

#2. A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.

Frank Delaney

#3. Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.

Aries Spears

#4. I was beginning to realize that what I wanted was the noise of people living near me, but not near enough to cause any inaudible noises to show up because I knew that those sorts of noises often shift into inaudible minor chords and I am unable to deal with that shift.

Catherine Lacey

#5. Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it,

Chris Hedges

#6. Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

Truman Capote

#7. I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

Leo Kottke

#8. The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Henry Adams

#9. Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

Walter Darby Bannard