9 Quotes by Terry Bisson

En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting intime?”“Teresa, I insist, you must call me Mimsy. If you weren’t going to finish it, they would have arranged a later pickup date, since they already know what will happen. For god’s sake, girl, quit worrying. Go home and get to work! You haveuntil tomorrow night.”“But I don’t even know where to start!”"Don’t you artists have any imagination? Make something up!

Through the door came a being of intense vivacity, impeccable sartorial integrity, and intermittent intelligibility.

Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone...

Identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells.

Sometimes missing things was the next best thing to having them.

Fire on the mountain,” the granny woman said. “They up there sharpening they swords.” Then she said that word again: freedom.

The present, due to its staggering complexities, is almost as conjectural as the past.” – George Jackson “Dawn also has its terrors.” – Victor Hugo “America is our country, more than it is the whites’... we have enriched it with our blood and tears.” – David Walker “My love to all who love their neighbors.” – John Brown.

He raised his sunglasses and saw a young woman in an impossibly brief dress with an improbably welcoming smile.

Oh, Brown was our lion and Tubman our fox, great-grandson!