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Away Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
- Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and…
- As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong…
- From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of…
- After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness…
- Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.
- As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this…
- I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within…
- New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place,…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius