“Our thoughts were so awesome to us, that no one could speak a word, not even ‘Goodbye.’ We hugged and clasped and wept silently.”
― Fred Chappell, quote from I Am One of You Forever
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Fred Chappell, quote from I Am One of You Forever
“The tear on my mother’s cheek got larger and larger. It detached from her face and became a shiny globe, widening outward like an inflating balloon. At first the tear floated in the air between them, but as it expanded it took my mother and father into itself. I saw them suspended, separate but beginning to slowly drift towards one another. Then my mother looked past my father’s shoulder, looked through the bright skin of the tear, at me. The tear enlarged until at last, it took me in, too. It was warm and salt. As soon as I got used to the strange light inside the tear, I began to swim clumsily towards my parents.”
― Fred Chappell, quote from I Am One of You Forever
“No, I thank you; I have had an elegant sufficiency of the numerous delicacies. Any more would be an unsophisticated superfluity, for gastronomic satiety admonishes me that I have reached the ultimate stage of deglutition consistent with dietetic integrity. ”
― Fred Chappell, quote from I Am One of You Forever
“There were too many things suddenly that I didn’t understand, and I didn’t know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that’s not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.”
― Fred Chappell, quote from I Am One of You Forever
Fred Chappell
Born place: in Canton, North Carolina, The United States
Born date May 28, 1936
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“En un mundo que prefiere la seguridad a la justicia, hay cada vez más gente que aplaude el sacrificio de la justicia en los altares de la seguridad. En las calles de las ciudades, se celebran las ceremonias. Cada vez que un delincuente cae acribillado, la sociedad siente alivio ante la enfermedad que la acosa. La muerte de cada malviviente surte efectos farmacéuticos sobre los bienvivientes. La palabra farmacia viene de phármakos, que era el nombre que daban los griegos a las víctimas humanas de los sacrificios ofrendados a los dioses en tiempos de crisis.”
― Eduardo Galeano, quote from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
“You’d be the exception, you know. With you, it would be real, not an escape.”
― L.B. Simmons, quote from The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller
“Sieh sie dir an", sagte Vincent. "Alle finden einfach zueinander. Sie kommen so mühelos zusammen. Warum passiert mir das nicht?”
― quote from Torture the Artist
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON”
― C.J. Box, quote from Cold Wind
“I don’t want you to be free from something, I simply want you to be free. See the difference: Freedom from is never total; that “from” keeps it entrapped with the past. Freedom from can never be real freedom. Neither can freedom for ever be real freedom; that is a search for a new slavery.”
― Osho, quote from Living on Your Own Terms: What Is Real Rebellion?
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