Famous Quotes Ipsum

Change only takes place through action. it took me too long to realize / that i don't take good pictures / 'cause i have the kind of beauty / that moves he had a word, too. love, he called it. but i had been used to words for a long time. i knew that that word was like the other, just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear. to talk to each other is but a more animated and audible thinking. she walks in beauty, like the night / of cloudless climes and starry skies; / and all that's best of dark and bright / meet in her aspect and her eyes: / thus mellow'd to that tender light / which heaven to gaudy day denies my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. but surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to speed the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. and as archie knows, it's not like that. it's never been like that. simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. sure, the world is full of trouble. but as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. under every deep, a lower deep opens. it's really a wonder that i haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. yet i keep them, because in spite of everything i still believe that people are really good at heart. i simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. it is beautiful that our lives coincided for so long. goodbyes always make my throat hurt . . . i need more hellos. are there not chapters in everybody's life that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of history? no man's life is ordinary to himself..