Neely Creek Quotes & Sayings

I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished. — Paul Auster

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money — Steven Morrissey

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one. — John Steinbeck

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change. — Monica Raymund

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. — Cormac McCarthy

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today. — Frederick Lenz

[ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood. — George Perkins Marsh

The angels knew what they were doing when they gave you green eyes, it's like you're carrying a tiny bit of nature around in you. — Michelle Horst