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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside. ↗

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#distant #eternal #love #love is #night

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#done #may #near #objective #satisfied

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#art #beginning #culture #dew #distant

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling. ↗

— George Murray

#between #bit #distant #felt #forth

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#distant #picnic #sound #thunder

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ↗

— Hal Borland

#again #also #clearly #constellations #distant

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

#i #life #love #nomad #places