"No I'm not color blind, I know the world is black and white"
- John Mayer

Monday, April 4, 2011

I must be dreaming

As I've said before, I'm in love with All the King's Men. I'm more that halfway done with it, and each time I open it I find multiple sections of truly beautiful writing. Last night in my reading of it I discovered a passage that I am absolutely in love with:

"For after the dream there is no reason why you should not go back and face the fact which you have fled from... for any place to which you may flee will now be like the place from which you have fled, and you might as well go back, after all, to the place where you belong, for nothing was your fault or anybody's fault, for things are always as they are. And you can go back in good spirits, for you will have learned two very great truths. First, that you cannot lose what you never had. Second, that you are never guilty of a crime which you did not commit... If you believe the dream you dream when you go there"
- All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

Happy Monday!

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