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As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in just such a way, and seen and heard the very same things that he was seeing and hearing now. Yes, the Farmer Gibberty had once been a real living man, like himself. And so had millions of others, whose names he had never heard. And one day he himself would be a prisoner, confined between the walls of other people's memory. And then he would cease even to be that, and become nothing but a few words cut in stone. What would these words be, he wondered.


Hope Mirrlees


#epitaphs #nathaniel-chanticleer #death

Death Notice, ...... “He was offended with his wife, and went and hanged himself.” 10 Jun 1817


Boston Recorder


#epitaph #death

Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.


John Ritter


#again #blowing #came #did #during

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows….. I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently (impossible to hide their sound), can only be of something that acquired absolute exteriority and a full-fledged soul.


Fernando Pessoa


#words #men

You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-


Janet Evanovich


#romantic #money

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.


Stephen Jay Gould


#metaphor #mind #nature #change

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.


John Green


#growing-up #inspirational #life #metaphor #friendship

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.


Robert Anton Wilson


#philosophy #brain

Change happens very slow and very sudden.


Dorothy Bryant


#feminist #metaphysics #science-fiction #change

There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.


Samuel Beckett


#simile






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