Who Wrote That? #2

“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

“This is the way the world ends

“. . . this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don’t like, and that way something bad won’t fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man; and if this doesn’t work there are other ways, and if they don’t work don’t feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn’t fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?”

“… the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.“

“I have eaten