Quotes of: Upstate-new-york Keyword

It's a tradition to drink rakia with snacks. Not like the Russians, you know, who just drink to get drunk. I like a little snack with the news.

The Making of June

I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.

The Murder Case of Tok Imam Storpa Karde

Depression was like wearing tinted glasses and looking through them changed one's perception dramatically. A fancy new house could be construed as a bunch of boards nailed together.

Madman in the Mirror

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition

Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

Magic Strikes

But everything changes. To deny change is to deny life. And the present moment contains miracles. Including an ability to see and receive the new.

No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.

Nightmare Abbey

...because my life without you would be a place of parched and broken trees...

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.” -Triven

New World: Rising

Lan shook his head sightly "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

New Spring

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

No Name in the Street

MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don't believe in luck. Good or bad.

New Year's Thieve

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

New Year's Thieve

When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand their world and be accepted into it. It is the same for an actor with a new role.

Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The October Country

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Kavanagh

All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.

A Luminous Future

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

The Long Goodbye

And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.

Links

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The Library at Night