Dhalgren Quotes & Sayings

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with. — Kacy Hill

I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

You don't create your thoughts, but you choose your thoughts. To pick the right thoughts at a right time is what wisdom is all about. — Roshan Sharma

He shrugged. Confusion was like struggling to find the proper way to sit inside his skin. — Samuel R. Delany

stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else. — Patrick Rothfuss

'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time. — Samuel R. Delany

When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination ... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go. — Bertrand Russell

I have heard the people dwelling in my land, hall-rulers, say that they had often seen two such mighty stalkers of the marches, spirits of otherwhere, haunting the moors. One of them, as they could know full well, was like unto a woman; the other miscreated being, in the image of man wandered in exile (save that he was larger than any man), whom in the olden time the people named Grendel. They knew not if he ever had a father among the spirits of darkness. They dwell in a hidden land amid wolf-haunted slopes and savage fen-paths, teh wind-swept cliffs where the mountain-stream falleth, shrouded in the mists of the headlands, its flood flowing underground. — Chauncey Brewster Tinker

My mind is my laboratory. — Albert Einstein

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. — Mignon McLaughlin

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. — C.S. Lewis

He wanted to talk and had nothing to say. — Samuel R. Delany

Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning. — Samuel R. Delany

Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ... Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough. — Bill Watterson

A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends. — Samuel R. Delany

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason. — Victor Hugo

So, you hate me?" He laughed.
How could Mother have tolerated Kretzsky? She claimed he had helped her.
"I hate me, too," he said. — Ruta Sepetys

God could easily at any moment prove he existed beyond doubt with some amazing show of power which would have everyone kneel to him in awe. That is not what he wants. Real belief can't be gained by a dazzling show and a loving relationship can't be won through force. — Lewis N. Roe

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style. — Gordon Getty