…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?
I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does … - Jesse Ball
I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does …
- Jesse Ball
I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages. - Jesse Ball
I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.
Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wis… - Jesse Ball
Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wis…
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another. - Jesse Ball
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse! - Jesse Ball
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation. - Jesse Ball
I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor. - Jesse Ball
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you? - Jesse Ball
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another. - Jesse Ball
Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.
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