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«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard (Author) | Keywords: aging, awed, bats, bloodied, breathe, care for, companions, dearest, delicate, eaten, Everything is Beautiful, fits, fray, frayed, fraying, frays, gnaw, gnawed, gnaws, gnaw at, imperfections, nibble, nibbled, nibbling, overwhelmingly, scarred, shines, shining, splinter, splintered, splintering, splinters, survivor, washed, wondering, wreck, wrecking
«Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run»
Author: Bliss Carman | About: Indifference | Keywords: dry rot, dry run, rot, run dry, wreck
«It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.»
Author: Francis J. Grimke | Keywords: wreck
«Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.»
Author: Immanuel Kant (Philosopher) | Keywords: lighthouse, lighthouses, philosophic, shores, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, The Lighthouse, wreck
«I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Writer) | Keywords: ours, planet, the Wrecks, wreck, wrecking
«A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: argosy, compass, nail, placed, rusty, sway, swaying, sways, wreck
«The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | Keywords: And One, as good as, damn, lucky, overhear, overheard, overhears, parts, the Wrecks, wreck, wrecking, writer
«A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Words | Keywords: inch, in trouble, railroad, railroads, railroad track, rolled into one, rolling, smooth, switch on, track, wreck
«A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: at sea, beacon, beacons, shore, wreck
«Musing upon the king my brother's wreck / And on the king my father's death before him.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: musing, musings, wreck
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