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Letter "H" » happening
«Fate keeps on happening.»
«Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.»
«Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but»
Author: Frederick Buechner
(Author)
| Keywords:
bursts, crowd, fall into, floats, fourth, Fourth of July, happening, July, July 4, odd, prayers, praying, prays, rocket, rockets, sighing, Somebody else, sounds, spoken, stammer, stammering, The Rocket, The Water
«Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.»
«Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.»
Author: Rumer Godden
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
grit, grits, gritted, gritting, happening, lodges, lodging, of sound mind, pass away, piece of writing, Sight and Sound
«Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else»
Author: Will Rogers
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Funny
| Keywords:
as it is, funnier, funny, happening, happenings, Someone else
«He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.»
«I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.»
Author: Andy Warhol
(Artist)
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bedroom, bedrooms, happening, invited, In the Bedroom, monitor, monitoring, monitors, type
«Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crushed, crushing, crush out, happening, on the side, oppressed, placed
«America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
American System, control system, dreamers, happening, nightmare, set up, spontaneous, wipe
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