
“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden
The Pauper's Ride, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden
Song lyrics, In My Tribe (1987), Hey Jack Kerouac
1940s, To Every Briton (1940)
Context: This war has descended upon mankind as a curse and a warning. It is a curse inasmuch as it is brutalizing man on a scale hitherto unknown. All distinctions between combatants and noncombatants have been abolished. No one and nothing is to be spared. Lying has been reduced to an art. Britain was to defend small nationalities. One by one they have vanished, at least for the time being. It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. I read the writing when the hostilities broke out. But I had not the courage to say the word. God has given me the courage to say it before it is too late.
“Mountain passes slipping into stones,
Hearts and bones.”
Hearts and Bones
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)
“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains