#hatter

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. ↗

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

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#intelligent #make #masses #materials #might

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose. ↗

— David James Elliott

#i #i remember #jackson #jag #joe

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#equals #fact #hard #man #our

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. ↗