Kembali Pulang Quotes & Sayings

185. It Is Getting So Dark
Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light. — Sei Shonagon

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up. — A.R. Ammons

Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red at its edges, and further in the brown and gold clouds...

Then, suddenly, night: The empty rocking chair lit staring chalk blue by--is it the moon, or some other light in the sky? just the hard chair, empty now, in the very clear night, and this cold light coming down...

The images go, flowering, in and out, some lovely, some just awful...but she's snuggled in here with her lamb, her Roger, and how she loves the line of his neck all at once so---why there it is right there, the back of his bumpy head like a boy of ten's. She kisses him up and down the sour salt reach of skin that's taken her so, taken her nightlit along this high tendoning, kisses him like kisses were flowing breath itself, and never ending. — Thomas Pynchon

Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic
their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)
and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised. — Marisha Pessl

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed. — William Hazlitt

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline. — Peter Doig

Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness. — William Shakespeare

Maybe someday we'll see each other again, Charlie. For real I mean. Until then, save me a seat, okay?
-Solo — Trish Doller

A bartender walks into a church, a temple and a mosque. He has no idea how jokes work. — Various

My skills are still my skills. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.