“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder.”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“Each piece of the set was on a winch and pulley, bag-dropped, counterbalanced by nests of fifty-pound bags of sand. The setup was called a "Fairbanks," for the reason that when a stagehand so wanted, he could stand upon a knot on the rope, untie as few or as many bags of sand as he wanted, and ride nearly to the rafters like Zorro as the scenery lowered.
There was no particular reason to ride that way, but because Carter allowed it, the team of men did so all night long, trading places at the top, jumping onto the ropes and riding back down later. With the mighty Egyptian set descending in its many pieces, the audience was deprived of a behind-the-scenes tableau of beauty: Carter's team swiftly riding ropes up to the catwalk and down to the stage again, simply because they could.”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“She knew him. Somehow. And wasn't that quite marvelous?”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“He thought of the boys and girls who looked for sweethearts at Mountain View Cemetery, and chorus girls who met their beaux behind scrim, and office romances that flourished in the buildings on Market Street, and he felt like there were little lights in alcoves here and there across the city, in cozy dens, in doorways during rainstorms, or even a chilly balcony on the Ferry building. Everywhere, little pairs of glowing lights. When you walked a city, wherever you looked, someone had probably fallen in love.”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
“Man cannot survive by bread and water alone, but bread and water and hate?”
― Glen David Gold, quote from Carter Beats the Devil
Glen David Gold
Born date January 1, 1964
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“Understood what it meant to feel at home wherever you were. To feel as though you belonged in any moment, at any place, in any time.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from La voz de los muertos
“At the edge Of no more Is where we find Our truth.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters
“He’s my brother. You don’t turn away from someone like him just because he likes dick instead of the good stuff.” I chuckle. “You certainly haven’t lost your way with words.”
― T.J. Klune, quote from Bear, Otter, and the Kid
“My uncle is a phrenologist and says that the shape of his skull is typical of a liar.”
― Natasha Pulley, quote from The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
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