Will Harrison
Will Harrison
betrayal fall love-is
We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.
prayer thinking sometimes
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
desire objects
Desire creates its own object.
imagination world rehearsal
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
rome lows accommodate
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
mother jealous firsts
My mother was my first jealous lover ...
children responsibility goodness
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
america rooms lost
Porches are America's lost rooms.
inspirational art reality
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
ideas people original-ideas
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
attempt bargain believes foot fulfill great survey
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
successes
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
believe democratic directed government measures poor rich richer
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
american-president directed government measures poor richer
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.