Lorene Cary quotes
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“I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.”
-- Lorene CarySource : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.218, Vintage
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“When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.”
-- Lorene CarySource : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage
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“Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.”
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“But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.”
-- Lorene CarySource : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.127, Vintage
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“Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better.”
-- Lorene Cary
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Source : Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True
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“Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. ”
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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
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“But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.”
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“The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”
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