Perplexities & Passages

A collection of thoughts and quotations that slant, bend, twist, provoke, perplex ... Topics range widely, focusing on health, information, librarianship, technology, ethics, advocacy, accessibility and more. Collected by Patricia F. Anderson.

Nov 10, 2012 2:32pm
Nov 2, 2012 9:35pm

Merton on Politics and War

“Indignation is not enough. The world is full of people who use it to excuse everything, including the worst of actions.”

Thomas Merton, in a letter to Mark Van Doren on the subject of the arms race. As quoted in:

Lawlor, Patrick T. “Poet to teacher, Thomas Merton’s letters to Mark Van Doren.” Columbia Library Columns November 1989 39(1):18-30. p.27.

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Oct 24, 2012 7:33pm

“And a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” 
Tyrion Lannister.

“And a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” 

Tyrion Lannister.

(via priihfrasnelli)

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Apr 22, 2012 4:39pm
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Nov 26, 2009 1:05pm
Seedlings not planted, / benched perennials withered. / Limit the lament. - @pfanderson (via haikuchallenge)
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Aug 28, 2008 6:14pm
it’s really masculine, phil
reading women like a book the way you do
seeing through their breasts
into that pea-sized death
every woman knows she owns from birth. - Kennedy, Terry. “For Hatfield, the Radiologist.” Her Soul Beneath the Bone, ed. Leatrice H. Lifshitz. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (c)1988, p. 5.
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Aug 27, 2008 6:09pm
I set out the new shoes
for the morning. I work. Nothing
will come between me
and all that I love. I will never
be done with the sweeping up
of common things,
the straightening, the putting away. - Skipper, Louie. “Yes, Light.” The Fourth Watch of the Night. Davis, CA: Swan Scythe Press, (c)2001, p. 35.
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Aug 26, 2008 6:10am
“I don’t know. It’s just that I’ve got the early morning blues.”
unicornology:

scout:
(via smut-to-go)

“I don’t know. It’s just that I’ve got the early morning blues.”

unicornology:

scout:

(via smut-to-go)
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Aug 25, 2008 6:12am
Like a child constantly rebuilding the same Lego structure day after day, I have to use these blocks, these seconds and moments of unconditional love from throughout my life, every day, to remember that I am loved. - Roche, David. The Church of 80% Sincerity. “A Perigee Book.” NY: Penguin, 2008, p. 126.
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