Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. Robert James Waller More Quotes by Robert James Waller More Quotes From Robert James Waller The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. Robert James Waller broken healing heart Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert James Waller dream life funny The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves. Robert James Waller our-world men country Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away. Robert James Waller analysis magic going-away In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. Robert James Waller matter dream love There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them. Robert James Waller blue song country We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Robert James Waller two-of-us lost two For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire. Robert James Waller karma clothes moving And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before. Robert James Waller acting bridges gone The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them. Robert James Waller work-out vision dream And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies. Robert James Waller gypsy remember knowledge Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County" Robert James Waller blame kissing bridges Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. Robert James Waller safety people art This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you. Robert James Waller love-you years fall It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another. Robert James Waller ignorance years moving First you must have the images, then come the words. Robert James Waller firsts The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on. Robert James Waller talking war long One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone. Robert James Waller great-love enough lifetime So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity. Robert James Waller here-i-am two thinking I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. Robert James Waller feelings sometimes long
