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“So they went thither, Prince Ahmad following her footsteps; and on reaching it he was filled with wonder to see its vaulted roof of exquisite workmanship and adorned with gold and lapis lazuli and paintings and ornaments, whose like was nowhere to be found in the world.”
“‘This is my true Bride,’ said he… The true wedding was celebrated with great pomp and happiness.”
The Master said, “The wise are never perplexed. The humane never suffer from vexation. The brave are never afraid.”
“You find that it is the thing he is writing about that is interesting. Not the way it is written.”
“Just finish the first draft and go for it!”
“I hope that a Wende for better times will take place.”
“The esthetic hero must have his opposition outside himself, not in himself.”
“What do all good stories do… They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren’t.”
“At that moment, she basked in a world without questions or answers. Without doubts or convictions. She basked in a world that was one with her.”
“We may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs but we’re presurely destined to be odd’s without ends.”
“Death and love—no, I cannot make a poem of them, they don’t go together. Love stands opposed to death.”
“I don’t mean the middle America of small minds and malt shops, or midcentury America, but rather the middle, the muddle, the void of America.”
“It was beautiful, sad and unreal, where the sunlight struck. You felt as though life would be different there, the air lighter and cooler, the silence more profound.”
“The soul says to her base earthly parts, ‘My exile is more bitter than yours: I am celestial.’”
“And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
