Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more. But to lose oneself in a... city--as one loses oneself in a forest--that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along th...e primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one's way to where the country is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have... a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath:... Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Staying in charge as a mother means exercising one's own judgment about what is best for one's child. It means, at times, disregar...ding the advice of experts. It means fighting one's way into institutional decision making in an effort to make it responsive to the needs of one's own child. It means trusting one's own point of view. Most of all, it means developing the ability to tolerate both the internal anxiety and the external hostility that are generated when one tries to stay in charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that in the swift white mind's brain Neurons flash images of a world... Undead and deathless, burgeoning again. I think that Spring will come this way, unfurled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul...; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »