“Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.”
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 181
“Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.”
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
On the Alex Jones Radio show, as quoted in "David Lynch Questions 9/11 On National U.S. Radio" in Prison Planet (25 January 2007)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within — help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) Polish-born, French and American mathematician
Segment 8
Peoples Archive interview
Context: I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.
“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”
David Zindell book Neverness
p88
Neverness (1988)
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"The Ghost of Tom Joad"
Song lyrics, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)