Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“If you never get sadness, how do you know what happy is like?”
“Sometimes you have to do one thing bad in order to do another thing good.”
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“Crooked world, straight world, same rules – everybody had a hand out for the envelope.”
“There was a girl.”
“It was Marie’s unbeauty that was the making of her.”
“Our domination of nature is a delusion.”
“If we sink a spoon into that fact, into the duff between us, we will find it teeming.”
“By the time you read this, you may have figured it out.”
“All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.”
“You can’t assimilate Indian ghosts. It’s too late!”
