David Miller

That Glimpse Of Truth

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  • Ekaterina Oguryaevahas quoted8 years ago
    Why? Oh! Now I remember the words of the monk at Mont Saint-Michel: “Can we see the hundred-thousandth part of what exists? Listen; there is the wind which is the strongest force in nature; it knocks men down, blows down buildings, uproots trees, raises the sea into mountains of water, destroys cliffs, and casts great ships on to the breakers; it kills, it whistles, it sighs, it roars, – have you ever seen it, and can you see it? It exists for all that, however!”
  • Marija Zunichas quotedlast month
    Pritchett said, “Yes. People don’t know what’s going to happen next in their lives, so we don’t either.”
  • Marija Zunichas quotedlast month
    One story included here was published originally on Twitter, which shows what you can do with as few words as you wish – FOR SALE: BABY’S SHOES. NEVER WORN.1
  • Marija Zunichas quotedlast month
    The short story can be the most surprising form of fiction because it offers a magnitude of tellings.
  • Marija Zunichas quotedlast month
    The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong.
  • Marija Zunichas quotedlast month
    Tell me what you want, and I shall tell you who you are.
  • Nikola Stajichas quoted9 months ago
    And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
  • Marija Obucinahas quotedlast year
    The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong
  • Marija Obucinahas quotedlast year
    Tell me what you want, and I shall tell you who you are.

    Anton Chekhov
  • Nikola Stajichas quotedlast year
    “She breathes and burns as if with a great fire. She speaks not; she hears not – and burns!”
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