Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ~Ray Bradbury
It's late and I'm flipping through quotes online to satisfy my hunger for words strung together just-so.
I'm sitting in my in-laws family room, avoiding bed and writing and the college basketball game that has entranced my husband and father-in-law. Too tired to write. Too tired to sleep (clarification: too tired to untangle the clump of thoughts that pesters me each night as I attempt to sleep.)
Mostly, I'm regretting that I neglected to pack a book.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ~Ray Bradbury
It's late and I'm flipping through quotes online to satisfy my hunger for words strung together just-so.
I'm sitting in my in-laws family room, avoiding bed and writing and the college basketball game that has entranced my husband and father-in-law. Too tired to write. Too tired to sleep (clarification: too tired to untangle the clump of thoughts that pesters me each night as I attempt to sleep.)
Mostly, I'm regretting that I neglected to pack a book.
4 Comments:
Quotes - basketball + bookless + blogful = most of us.
I started listening to Shelby Foote and John LeCarre books on tape to go to sleep early when I switched from night shifts to too-early mornings. The habit remained, as it helped both of us to let go of those tangling thoughts and sleep. Like the adult conversations in the other room when I was small.
David Good to know I'm not alone...
ZhoenExcellent suggestions...
LJ I know, I know. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to go, and we "packed" in record time. I was kicking myself the entire weekend.
It seems to me that searching for quotes is the heroin of the Internet. Brutally addictive, and unabashedly self-indulgent. Fortunately it won't kill you!
Weird
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