"And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"
"But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human."
"He still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
"It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."
"Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons."
"He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. 'But that isn't enough any more,' said Rosewater."
"The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn't look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again:
Oh, boy- they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!
And that thought had a brother: 'There are right people to lynch.' Who? People not well connected. So it goes."
God is the best connection to have!
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I'm glad I first read "A Man Without a Country" first- because it really helps me understand this book. He talks about how he tried to write the book and how he didn't know where to start. He had seen so much and he wanted to do it justice.
"Why had it taken me twenty-three years to write about what I had experienced in Dresden? We all came home with stories, and we all wanted to cash in, one way or another. And what Mary O'Hare was saying, in effect was, 'Why don't you tell the truth for a change?'"
And I guess that's what the book turned out to be- about some idiot guy who stumbles into this situation and doesn't know what to do with it. Ridiculousness.
I enjoyed the concept of time in this book- and how we just get stuck in this chronological way of life. We can't see beyond it most of the time.
"But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human."
"He still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
"It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."
"Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons."
"He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. 'But that isn't enough any more,' said Rosewater."
"The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn't look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again:
Oh, boy- they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!
And that thought had a brother: 'There are right people to lynch.' Who? People not well connected. So it goes."
God is the best connection to have!
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I'm glad I first read "A Man Without a Country" first- because it really helps me understand this book. He talks about how he tried to write the book and how he didn't know where to start. He had seen so much and he wanted to do it justice.
"Why had it taken me twenty-three years to write about what I had experienced in Dresden? We all came home with stories, and we all wanted to cash in, one way or another. And what Mary O'Hare was saying, in effect was, 'Why don't you tell the truth for a change?'"
And I guess that's what the book turned out to be- about some idiot guy who stumbles into this situation and doesn't know what to do with it. Ridiculousness.
I enjoyed the concept of time in this book- and how we just get stuck in this chronological way of life. We can't see beyond it most of the time.
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