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"The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange."
"The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere."
"But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter."
"Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow."
"Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever."
"Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore."
"Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow."
"What you give away comes back to you in a river."
"Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river."
"Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record."
"God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls."
"What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes."
"I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River."
"I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires."
"We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them."
"A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers."
"I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book."
"The "Great Walk to Beijing" was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer "thrivers," including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons, and Olympians."
"Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter."
"Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea."
