” . . . you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”
—from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Tag: The World
“‘And you really live by the river? What a jolly life!’
‘By it and with it and on it and in it,’ said the Rat. ‘It’s brother and sister to me, and aunts, and company, and food and drink, and (naturally) washing. It’s my world, and I don’t want any other. What it hasn’t got is not worth having, and what it doesn’t know is not worth knowing.'”
—from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lead forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
—from On the Road by Jack Kerouac
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
—from A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
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