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Quotes About Unattainability

No Names There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier- scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take. Some high lakes are not for us, some slick escarpments. I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick.
~ Kay Ryan
something to be attained by special virtuous techniques, the less real it becomes. As it becomes less real, it recedes further into the distance of abstraction, futurity, unattainability. The
~ Thomas Merton
Not the first time Doc had run into girl-of-his-dreams unavailability.
~ Thomas Pynchon
There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick. No Names
~ Kay Ryan