Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[covingtoncat73]

"But, yes, I am a godless infidel. At least that’s how I voted in the last election.” A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore

[kennyc]

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded,
no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight,
to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
- Richard Wright author of Native Son 9/4/1908.

[covingtoncat73]

“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

[bfisher]

“We carry the lives we’ve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”
Helen Macdonald - H is for Hawk

[kennyc]

"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams."
- H.G. Wells (English writer H.G. Wells born September 21, 1866)

[covingtoncat73]

"And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"

Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

He is 81 today.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"

Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

He is 81 today.

Wonderful! That song (poem) is very close to, if not my number one of all time!
(followed closely by Suzanne by Lord Cohen!)



Leonard 'nails it' in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"

Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

He is 81 today.

Thanks, I love that song. I'm especially fond of kd lang's rendition.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Wonderful! That song (poem) is very close to, if not my number one of all time!
(followed closely by Suzanne by Lord Cohen!)



Leonard 'nails it' in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q

Originally Posted by bfisher

Thanks, I love that song. I'm especially fond of kd lang's rendition.

Thanks, guys! The Jeff Buckley rendition is basically my song. The KD Lang version is quite good, though, bfisher. Suzanne is quite good as well.

That is quite an excellent youtube of the master throwing it down live, Kenny!

[kennyc]

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."
- Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation signed 9/22/1862

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"

Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

He is 81 today.

I saw him in Saskatoon when he was 79. A joy to watch him perform.

[HomeInMyShoes]

“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”

― Richard Wagamese

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”

― Richard Wagamese

What a wonderful quote! I'll have to owe you Karma!!

Any particular book of his you would recommend?

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by kennyc

What a wonderful quote! I'll have to owe you Karma!!

Any particular book of his you would recommend?

If you like hockey then Indian Horse is brilliant. If you don't it is merely very good. I just finished One Native Life and it is quiet and poetic and a book I could read again and again and get more out of it each time. Given your love of all things short, One Native Life would be a perfect starting place.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

If you like hockey then Indian Horse is brilliant. If you don't it is merely very good. I just finished One Native Life and it is quiet and poetic and a book I could read again and again and get more out of it each time. Given your love of all things short, One Native Life would be a perfect starting place.

(not a hockey fan )