Proximally Defined Quotes

#1. With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Edward Bellamy

#2. You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.

Tim Vine

#3. A young man named for a god of fucking
rode his palomino next to my dun.

Mark Wunderlich

#4. A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Gerald Brenan

#5. In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest - my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

Richard Rodriguez

#6. Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Chogyam Trungpa

#7. Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

Scott Cunningham

#8. If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

William James

#9. A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Gregory David Roberts

#10. There is no beginning that is a blank page,

Amitava Kumar

#11. A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

Andy Whitfield