An ocean is never out of sigh of birds.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Ocean’s Reach
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An ocean is never out of sigh of birds.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
So I just went on standing there, like a telephone pole in the middle of a field.
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England
And because I was a waiter, I waited.
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England
Money, that’s the real deity.
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England
I learned that the world is an enormous table, so large that it can never be fully set.
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England
A person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing cannot be an artist.
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England
Life is here to be lived.
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England