#hatter

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#being #blame #call #dream #ever

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

#confesses #dirty #experience #had #her

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#chatter #danger #i #immerse #internet

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ↗

— Helen Keller

#emerge #into #light #shall #shattered

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #another #create #equally #form

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#difficulty #dream #fertility #happen #hope

Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them. ↗

— Rich Galen

#chatter #dean #democrat #find #i

Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me? ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#howl-s-moving-castle #humor #sophie-hatter #humor