“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.”
― Lao Tzu
Dallas, Texas
Time Is A Created Thing
Monthly Archives: October 2015
I Destroy Them
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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Mural, Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
On Horseback Goin Through the Mountains Of A Night
But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men
Downtown Dallas, Texas
Tiny Cardboard City
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Taken through the window of an architecture firm, downtown Dallas, Texas
Walk On By
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by
—-lyrics by Hal David
Deel Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Make believe
That you don’t see the tears
Just let me grieve
In private ’cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Walk on by, walk on by
Foolish pride
Is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
I Don’t Like Work — No Man Does
“I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Downtown Dallas, Texas
The Very Lucky Discover the Keystone
“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance … some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Klyde Warren Park
Dallas, Texas
Someone Stronger Than You
“She didn’t need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida
Adolphus Hotel
Dallas, Texas
Less About Living And More About Waiting
“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Downtown Dallas, Texas
A Gal Might Need A Laser
“Never know when a gal might need a laser.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
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Dallas Aurora 2015
Bill Chance 