Author: Justin Taylor

Cites

• Martin Buber (2)
  • IN: Flings: Stories (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Rabbi Pinhas ofren cited the words: "'A man's soul will teach him,'" and emphasized them by adding: "There is no man who is not incessantly being taught by his soul." One of his disciples asked: "If this is so, why don't men obey their souls?" "The soul teaches incessantly, " Rabbi Pinhas explained, "but it never repeats."
    FROM: Tales of the Hasidim, (1933), Book, Austria/Israel
  • IN: Flings (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Rabbi Pinhas often cited the words: "'A man's soul qwill teach him,'" and emphasized them by adding: "There is no man who is not incessantly being taught by his soul." One of his disciples asked: "If this is so, why don't men obey their their souls?" The souls teaches incessantly," Rabbi Pinhas explained, "but it never repeats."
    FROM: Tales of the Hasidim, (1933), Book, Austria
• The CrimethInc. Collective (1)
  • IN: The Gospel of Anarchy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For what else should we pursue, if not happiness? If something isn't valueable because we find meaning and joy in it, then what could possibly make it important? How could abstractions like "responsiblity," "order," or "propriety" posssibly be more important than the real needs of the people who invented them? Should we serve employers, parents, the State, God, capitalism, moral law, causes, movements, "society" before ourselves? Who taught you that, anyway?
    FROM: Days of War, Nights of Love, (2001), Book, UK
• G. K. Chesterton (1)
  • IN: The Gospel of Anarchy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king.
    FROM: Orthodoxy, (1908), Book, UK
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Loose now and then A scattered smile, and that I'll live upon.
    FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
• Gary Lutz (1)
  • IN: Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I sang the way I still talk. Every song was the worst way I could think of to ask for what I did not yet know how not to want.
    FROM: Stories in the Worst Way, (1996), Novel, US
• Saul Bellow (1)
  • IN: Flings (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, for a change of heart -- a true change of heart!
    FROM: Herzog, (1964), Novel, US/Canada