Will Walker
Will Walker
William Walker may refer to:...
coffee mean home
Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right.
loss risk gains
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
losing losing-hope hiding
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
life-is fit
Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
people steps roles
It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
giving-up ambition ordinary
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
sadness joy turns
Joy and sadness come by turns.
fiction stories novel
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
beautiful science simplicity
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
time lying past
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
class categories
Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
ordinary
Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
sex writing thinking
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
art communication feelings
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.