Quotes About Perspective

Virgil had read once that Grandma Moses was a primitive painter because she thought snow was white. The writer said if you really looked at it, snow was hardly ever white. It mostly was a gentler version of the color of the sky - blue, gray, orange in the evenings and mornings, often with purple shadows. When he looked, sure enough, the guy was right, and Grandma Moses had her head up her ass.

the points of view of a lot of people I'd opposed at the start. That the Vietnam War was a waste

We see things as they are, we project out consequences of our actions, very pragmatically. We don't stir in a lot of hope, we don't turn blind eyes.

chair and read a story in a four-year-old Cosmo about how women can keep their men interested by learning the latest in blow-job techniques—the techniques themselves were described blow by blow, so to speak, by a panel of successful New York advertising and media women. I was not only convinced, I was supportive.

Sometimes the world does seem like it's going nuts. Then, you go to a party like this one, with your friends, and you realize how wonderful everything really is. With all the bullshit—it's still wonderful." They

They were the kind of people whose unhappiness tended to become your unhappiness, to say nothing of your screaming agony.

but you ask anybody who's been to jail, and they'll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.

in to Reader's Digest.

It's hard to sell the official story to people who can see things for themselves.

Don't discount that part of who he was just because you didn't know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

Jesus, Kerensky said, looking around. You people. I have one of the most incredible experiences I'll ever have, talking with the one person who really gets me - who really understands me - and you're all down here thinking I'm performing some sort of time-travelling incestuous masturbation thing.

Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you're an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a living, which means that you don't have to lift heavy boxes or ask people if they want fries with that. Grow up and get back to work.

Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus , so you tell me.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

I've been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind.

I'm not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.

I was just talking about you," Cardenia said, coming up to him. "To your imaginary friends, I see." "They're not imaginary. They're just not real." "Very subtle distinction.

The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.

Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That'd be a hell of a life.

She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be.

Lies do not in themselves lead to poor outcomes, nor does truth in every circumstance lead to good ones. As with so many things, context matters.

It's because I remind them they're not God," I said. "And that if there is one, I'm closer to Him than they are.

Remember that the plant wants to eat you," the groundskeeper said. "It's not going to let you get away. Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful

There's nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone's first time.