Craig Thompson Quotes
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and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.
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How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
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I love the sea because it is boundless.
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Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.
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You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.
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Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
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The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.
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For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?
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I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
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I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.
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Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
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On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.
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Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".
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Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?
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Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.
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Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.
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At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.
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Even a mistake is better than nothing.
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Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.
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Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
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You're more than a story.
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