C.S. Lewis
“Free will, though it makes evil
possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy
worth having.” C.S. Lewis
“If they are wrong they need your
prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders
to pray for them.” C.S. Lewis
“As long as you are proud you
cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and,
of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is
above you.” C.S. Lewis
“You are never too old to set
another goal or dream another dream.” C.S.
Lewis
“To be a Christian means to
forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” C.S. Lewis
Buckminster Fuller
“Dare to be naïve.” R. Buckminster Fuller
“You never change things by
fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete.” Buckminister
Fuller
“I am convinced all of humanity
is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get
degeniused rapidly.” Buckminister Fuller
And now a word from Charles Bukowski
“Long ago, among other lies they were taught
that silence was bravery.” Charles
Bukowski
“Love yourself first and
everything else falls into line.” Charles Bukowski
“What matters most is how well
you walk through the fire” Charles
Bukowski
“There is only one lesson life is
trying to teach us – shut the fuck up and enjoy the view.” Charles Bukowski
“We’re all going to die, all of
us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We
are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” - Charles Bukowski
Good words to have
Coherent, ultimately from the
Latin co- ("together") and haerēre ("to stick or cling")
Catercorner: Cater derives from
the Middle French noun quatre (or catre), which means "four." English
speakers adopted the word to refer to the four-dotted side of a die—a side
important in several winning combinations in dice games. Perhaps because the
four spots on a die can suggest an X, cater eventually came to be used
dialectically with the meaning "diagonal" or "diagonally."
This cater was combined with corner to form catercorner.
I cannot remember the books I’ve read
“I cannot remember the books I’ve
read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a library
“In a library we are surrounded
by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and
leathern boxes” Ralph Waldo Emerson
I live on Earth at present,
“I live on Earth at present, and
I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a
noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the
universe.” R. Buckminster Fuller
For what it’s worth
“For what it’s worth: It’s never
too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of,
and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” F.
Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Brautigan
When
you wake up
from death,
you will find yourself
in my arms,
and
I will be
kissing you,
and
I
will be crying.
Richard Brautigan,
“1. Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it
is quiet,
and sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual and
emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence
of yourself,
and listen to it.
Karma Repair
Kit: Items 1-4 (1967)
Richard Brautigan
“I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:
18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.”
Advice for writers and everyone else
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story...............leave.
Good words to have
Adumbrate (AD-um-brayt
) 1: to foreshadow vaguely : intimate 2: to suggest, disclose, or outline
partially 3: overshadow, obscure. Adumbrate
tends to show up most often in academic or political writing. Adumbrate developed
from the Latin verb adumbrare, which in turn comes from umbra, the Latin word
for "shadow." To adumbrate, then, is to offer a shadowy view of
something.
Redoubt (rih-DOUT)
a: a small usually temporary enclosed defensive work b: a defended position:
protective barrier 2: a secure
retreat: stronghold. Redoubt derives via
the French redoute and the Italian ridotto from a different Latin
verb—reducere, meaning "to lead back," the same root that gives us
reduce.
(Latin) Acquirere: to gain, to acquire.
Let us dedicate ourselves
“Let us dedicate ourselves to
what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make
gentle the life of this world.” Robert F. Kennedy
When great writers draw pictures with words
“I saw thousands of pumpkins last
night
come floating in on the tide,
bumping up against the rocks and
rolling up on the beaches;
it must be Halloween in the sea”
Richard Brautigan
But why think about that
“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of
you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you
glad you’re alive to see?” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“First Servant.”
In King Lear (III:vii) there is a
man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a
name: he is merely “First Servant.”
All the characters around him –
Regan, Cornwall, and Edmund – have fine long-term plans. They think they know
how the story is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no
such delusions. He has no notion of how the play is going to go. But he
understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of old
Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it.
His sword is out and pointed at
his master’s breast in a moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is
his whole part: eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have
acted. – C.S. Lewis, “The World’s Last
Night”
