“George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from George's Marvellous Medicine
“As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,”
― Roald Dahl, quote from George's Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl
Born place: in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, The United Kingdom
Born date September 13, 1916
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“La idea de la muerte llega siempre con paso de lobo, con andares de
culebra, como todas las peores imaginaciones. Nunca de repente llegan
las ideas que nos trastornan; lo repentino ahoga unos momentos, pero
nos deja, al marchar, largos años de vida por delante. Los pensamientos
que nos enloquecen con la peor de las locuras, la de la tristeza, siempre
llegan poco a poco y como sin sentir, como sin sentir invade la niebla los
campos, o la tisis los pechos. Avanza, fatal, incansable, pero lenta,
despaciosa, regular como el pulso. Hoy no la notamos; a lo mejor
mañana tampoco, ni pasado mañana, ni en un mes entero. Pero pasa ese
mes y empezamos a sentir amarga la comida, como doloroso el
recordar, ya estamos picados. Al correr de los días y las noches nos
vamos volviendo huraños, solitarios; en nuestra cabeza se cuecen las
ideas, las ideas que han de ocasionar el que nos corten la cabeza donde
se cocieron, quién sabe si para que no siga trabajando tan atrozmente.
Pasamos a lo mejor hasta semanas enteras sin variar; los que nos
rodean se acostumbraron ya a nuestra adustez y ya ni extrañan siquiera
nuestro extraño ser. Pero un día el mal crece, como los árboles, y
engorda, y ya no saludamos a la gente; y vuelven a sentirnos como raros
y como enamorados. Vamos enflaqueciendo, enflaqueciendo, y nuestra
barba hirsuta es cada vez más lacia. Empezamos a sentir el odio que nos
mata; ya no aguantamos el mirar; nos duele la conciencia, pero ¡no
importa!, ¡más vale que duela! Nos escuecen los ojos, que se llenan de
agua venenosa cuando miramos fuerte. El enemigo nota nuestro anhelo,
pero está confiado; el instinto no miente. (...) Cuando huimos como las
corzas, cuando el oído sobresalta nuestros sueños, estamos ya minados
por el mal; ya no hay solución, ya no hay arreglo posible. Empezamos a
caer, vertiginosamente ya, para no volvernos a levantar de vida. Quizás
para levantarnos un poco a última hora, antes de caer de cabeza hasta
el infierno... Mala cosa.”
― Camilo José Cela, quote from The Family of Pascual Duarte
“It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.”
― Janice Galloway, quote from The Trick is to Keep Breathing
“Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn’t feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren’t too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.”
― quote from American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
“Therefore, the only thing that stands between us and any kind of miracle is the fleshly pattern or system of thought that has captivated us in the realm of the soul.”
― quote from The Walk of the Spirit - The Walk of Power : The Vital Role of Praying in Tongues
“This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields. Mathematics, science, economics, history, religion, are all just as deeply and necessarily political. To believe they’re not—to believe, for example, that science (or mathematics, economics, history, religion, and so forth: choose your poison) describes the world as it is, rather than acting as a filter that removes all information that does not fit the model and colors the information that remains—is in itself to take a position, one that is all the more powerful and dangerous because it is invisible to the one who holds it.”
― Derrick Jensen, quote from Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
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